Elena Ferrante Quotes
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.
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In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.
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Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
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You can be hurt only if you love someone. But I don’t love anyone.
