Elena Ferrante Quotes

We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything.

Elena Ferrante

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• Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
  • Someone

• I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Family
  • Soul

• No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Poverty
  • Program
  • Eliminate

• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Language
  • Old

• I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Fashion
  • Amazing
  • Revolution

• Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • War
  • Tired

• Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Country
  • Style
  • Vision

• I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Moving

• I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Home
  • Company
  • Puppy

• Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Problem
  • Spiritual

• I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Know
  • Play
  • Band

• No, I never thought I would like cats.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Cats

• Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• There never was a good war or a bad peace.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Good
  • War
  • Bad

• When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • People
  • Power
  • Stop

• I've been very fortunate, but it also never occurred to me that I couldn't do something or that I couldn't ask if I could try something.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner

• Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Balance

• It kind of sucks when you lose a dog; you don't realize how attached to them you are until they are gone.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Dog

• You never know how much time you have with someone.

  

  Lisa Jakub
  • Time

• If you think about the energy that a rocket engine has to put out and all the fuel and you're sitting on top of like a bomb. And on the Space Shuttle, that big orange tank is filled with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, the white cell rocket boosters on the sides are filled with solid propellant. There's a lot of energy in all those chemicals there and you've got to control it in a way so it doesn't explode. So, there's a lot of plumbing, a lot of valving, a lot of control systems, and it's a very complicated thing. So, how do you bring the price of that down?

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Energy
  • Control
  • Space

• We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything.

  

  Elena Ferrante
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