Elena Ferrante Quotes
That people, even more than things, lost their boundaries and overflowed into shapelesness is what most frightened her.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
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I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.
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That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.
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To be happy, make other people happy.
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Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
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Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.
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My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
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Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things,' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'
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The only thing about sports is making sure you don't read the papers too often.
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Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
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That people, even more than things, lost their boundaries and overflowed into shapelesness is what most frightened her.
