Elena Ferrante Quotes
Maybe there's no second time without a third, but there is a first time without a second.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.
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The worker's existence is thus brought under the same condition as the existence of every other commodity. The worker has become a commodity, and it is a bit of luck for him if he can find a buyer, And the demand on which the life of the worker depends, depends on the whim of the rich and the capitalists.
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Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
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It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.
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My breadth of football experience, my injury history, and my all-or-nothing goal to become one of the best linebackers in the NFL, combined with all I'd been learning about the game's neurological effects on the brain, convinced me I'd be wise in choosing another career.
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Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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Maybe there's no second time without a third, but there is a first time without a second.
