Elena Ferrante Quotes
I don’t want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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Management must manage!
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Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.
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The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
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Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
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You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
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Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.
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Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.
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Clarity keeps you from boredom.
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I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a cafe, I have to sit still, or I'll look a bit unhinged.
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Bitcoin's revolution: an impossible-to-counterfeit digital store of value that can be used as money, that has no sovereign, or central bank involved, that can be sent anywhere instantly at virtually no cost, is irresistible. Anyone who uses it is converted.
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Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
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A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
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Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
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I don’t want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.
