Elena Ferrante Quotes
Is it possible that in all those years she left me nothing of herself, or, worse, that I didn’t want to keep anything of her? It is.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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No one is India.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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It's better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn't want to be there
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
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Is it possible that in all those years she left me nothing of herself, or, worse, that I didn’t want to keep anything of her? It is.
