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 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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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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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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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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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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'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.
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That's a different side of the brain going into the studio, as opposed to doing a live show, obviously.
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I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.
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Popular things have fans. It's not about me; it's about what we've made that people feel a connection to.
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When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.
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Be the winner in your life!
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
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I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
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That people, even more than things, lost their boundaries and overflowed into shapelesness is what most frightened her.
