Elena Ferrante Quotes
The balcony extended over the void like a diving board over a pool.
Elena Ferrante
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
Samuel Horsley
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.
Agatha Christie
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That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.
Luc Montagnier
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Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.
Jessie Mueller
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Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.
Douglas Wilder
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I've always been a believer that if you don't bet on yourself, how can you ask anyone else to.
Carlos Beruff
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I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called 'When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.' It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.
Jan Schakowsky
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I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
Don Rickles
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My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.
Ella McMahon
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy Bentham
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Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.
Paula Radcliffe
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The guy has to kill the spider and get the dead mouse outta the pool.
Leah Remini
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In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.
Ludivine Sagnier
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
Action Bronson
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Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.
Valerie Solanas
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The balcony extended over the void like a diving board over a pool.
Elena Ferrante
