Elena Ferrante Quotes
She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying.
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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'Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.'
Dave Eggers
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I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.
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I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
Patrick deWitt
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The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech.
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying.
Elena Ferrante