Elena Ferrante Quotes
I saw her fly toward the asphalt and felt a cruel joy. She seemed to me, as she fell, an ugly creature.
Elena Ferrante
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
Kate Millett
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Nancy Pelosi
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Jackie Kennedy
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
Walter Map
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
Gavin O'Connor
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There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!
Malin Akerman
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
Immanuel Kant
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凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。
Mao Zedong
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Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
Ben Jonson
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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
Khaled Hosseini
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For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it is the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness of deserting his post.
Marcus Aurelius
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Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.
Babatunde Adebimpe
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Joy, confidence, and security can't begin until we are able to just be ourselves.
Chelsea Manning
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We are the only animal that tells stories.
John Landgraf
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If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.
Glenn Frey
The Eagles
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I saw her fly toward the asphalt and felt a cruel joy. She seemed to me, as she fell, an ugly creature.
Elena Ferrante
