Elena Ferrante Quotes
I know I`m mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality.
Elena Ferrante
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
W. Edwards Deming
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
Irwin Rose
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
Sachin Bansal
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
Saint Ignatius
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
S. E. Hinton
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
Zooey Deschanel
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Ida Pauline Rolf
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Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.
Lamar Alexander
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
Sam Robards
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
Langston Hughes
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Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
George C. Scott
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
Jack Black
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I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.
Gabriela Isler
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Joanne Rowling
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I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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I know I`m mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality.
Elena Ferrante
