Elena Ferrante Quotes
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
Narciso Rodriguez -
A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
Rafael dos Anjos -
The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
Mae Jemison -
Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
Nathan Wolfe -
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
Ralph Steadman
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My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.
Francesca Annis -
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
Ira Sachs -
Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
Brian K. Vaughan -
She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.
Laini Taylor -
I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.
Ben Affleck -
Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
Elia Kazan -
The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.
Summer Sanders -
... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.
Robin LaFevers -
They did everything they could to make her renounce her position.
Pierre Pettigrew -
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus -
True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
William Bennett
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I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference, and also maybe some of those who sent us astray. There are those are the teachers who are brave enough to buck the system, and obviously not in such a way that jeopardizes their jobs, but brave enough to say, "I know I have to accomplish that, but I want to know how I'm going to help this child get there differently. I want to know what makes this child tick, and I want to help him get there from a place of curiosity, rather than from a place where I impose my ideas on him."
Emma Walton Hamilton -
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
Sophocles -
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
William Blake -
I’ve known how to whistle since I was five years old.
Elena Ferrante