Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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New thinking. Unleashing growth that creates opportunity. Promoting development that lifts all people out of poverty.Supporting democracy that gives citizens their say. Advancing the security and justice that delivers peace. Respecting the human rights of all people. These are the keys to progress - not just in Africa, but around the world.
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Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
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You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.
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Even as a full-grown adult, it can still feel destabilizing when your family goes through changes.
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
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My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.
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The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.
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The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.
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A lot of times in America, we work on bully muscles. We want the big muscles and the stuff that looks good. But we don't focus on the little things. But that's the stuff that sustains you and keeps you strong.
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In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
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Words for being lost or for being found.
