Elsa Morante Quotes
I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot!
Quotes to Explore
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
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Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
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There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the most popular singing group in the Tri-State area, the rest of the group convinced me I should play the guitar - even though I didn't own one! So what happened was, my stepfather actually made my first electric guitar for me for $23!
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After the launch of Bumble Date, users were starting to connect as friends, so we decided to launch BFF. When I was using BFF, I matched with someone who I then went on to hire at Bumble HQ. From there, I thought, why not create a platform for women to build business connections and advance their careers.
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
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Laughter means sympathy.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egoistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.
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When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
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One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.
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The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.
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I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot!
