Luca Guadagnino Quotes

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

Luca Guadagnino

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I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Jodi Picoult

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

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Everyone is broken; every mortal man or woman is broken in some way, shape, or form.

Matt Hardy

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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

Smedley Butler

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Lady Gaga is phenomenal. From the first day I met her, she was lightning in a bottle.

Troy Carter

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An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

Tom Coburn

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When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.

Martin Parr

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I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

Mike Ditka

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Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Luis Suarez

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You ever see a bar with 200 beautiful women go broke? But I've seen a lot of bars with great DJs go broke.

Jon Taffer

WomenBeautifulGreatYouGoSee

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

Douglas Coupland

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But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

Chris Elliott

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