Elena Ferrante Quotes
But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
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My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
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I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.
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I shall be so brief that I have already finished.
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Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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Everything felt more personal this time. I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up.
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Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Opening a small business is a reasonable thing for you to do but should tax payer, should an ordinary worker have to pay more money in taxes because someone across the street from them opened up a business which might well go under? For a lot of people opening a business is a bad choice for them. Most small businesses fail. I understand people wanting to give it a try and everything but we're not necessarily doing them a favor to say, take all your life savings, borrow to the hilt, and then struggle for three years and end up with nothing. We're not necessarily doing them a favor.
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Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.
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But a favor has to be answered by another favor, and the courtesies became a chain that imprisoned us.
