Elena Ferrante Quotes
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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I'm really tired of virtue.
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I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
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Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
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I never thought I would go into the dance charts.
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
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When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
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Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.
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There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
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Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.
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The truth is, sometimes siblings have nothing in common but blood...Sometimes you stay up late at night, thinking things that make you feel like a heartless monster, wishing for something different and then feeling sick with guilt because you know what the cost of "different" would be...There's a difference between having no siblings and having a broken one.
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The blood spurted from his neck and hit a copper pot hanging on the wall.
