Elena Ferrante Quotes
Such persistence in memorizing fashionable jargon, wasted effort. I had been conditioned by my education, which had shaped my mind, my voice.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I'm not a sun person.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.
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I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I would be remiss not to take advantage of this platform that I have, because I don't want any other woman or girl feeling like the way that I felt: that I didn't belong, that I would never succeed in the medium that I'm choosing to pursue because my hair isn't straight or my skin isn't light or my eyes aren't bright.
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Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours out of your day.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.
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We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.
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I'm so pleased to see us talking gender specific messages that are focusing on men on a way I think it needs to be focused in on and I think it's important.
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Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
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A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
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Most seem to have made an unconscious decision that it is better to keep visiting doctors and treating ailments that don’t heal than to do the painful work of facing the demons of the past.
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Such persistence in memorizing fashionable jargon, wasted effort. I had been conditioned by my education, which had shaped my mind, my voice.
