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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Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.
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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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As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.
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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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I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.
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Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.
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Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or success.
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Real revenge is making something of yourself.
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Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
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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.
