Elena Ferrante Quotes
A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.
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What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.
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Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.
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I'm not in politics.
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Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.
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When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.
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Of course I want the Furys, of course I want the Joshuas, but the question is, do they want me?
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We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
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There are so many colorful characters in Florida. There's a lot of money, development - not all of it good - and corruption.
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I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
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My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
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As a couple, we mutually decided to stay away from it, and rather than spending time on Internet, we be with each other. And if I need to tell Himanshu anything, I would rather whisper it in his ears than on social media. He is, after all, just beside me.
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My friends found out that I was writing a book on Twitter. It didn't seem worth mentioning over dinner. They're all so successful themselves.
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It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.
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When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.
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Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.
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Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.
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When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book's real power comes from its slower, broader movement.
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A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.
