Elena Ferrante Quotes
In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you’re saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
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Problems are cured by facing their cause.
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You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
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I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.
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To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
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My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.
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For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.
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To nurture the sort of relationships that will truly help propel you towards accomplishing great things, you need to forget transactional networking and focus on having in-depth conversations with fewer people about subjects you really care about.
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There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.
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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you’re saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.
