Elena Ferrante Quotes
It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!
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I'm not that interested in people.
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My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
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A beautiful 35-year old ain't as good-looking as an ugly 19-year old.
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Losers must have leave to speak.
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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)
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The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the moment he committed the crime.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with.
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Self-knowledge will reveal the elements of biological human nature from which modern social life proliferated in all its strange forms.
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Heaven was not so far away in the eyes of these people (the Maya), who believed that individual, civic and social truths could be revealed by consulting with nature: the shifting of the wind, the arrival of the rain, the appearance of the stars
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In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.
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It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.
