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Lapo Elkann Quotes

I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: italian
Birth: October 7, 1977

Topics

Think Things Happen Complicated Like

Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company - Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.

Technology Best Talent Engineering

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Desert Without Vegetation Inhabitants

I hate to cook, but I love to eat. I would want to be able to conjure yummy and healthy meals by wiggling my nose!

Jessica Parker Kennedy

Love Hate Healthy Want Eat Nose

My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.

Life Father Small Uncle Old Out

Creativity does not stop just because you're over 50. Hollywood spits female actresses out after age 29, but you don't stop creating. If anything, you become wiser and even better.

Age Creativity Better You Stop

Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.

Life Learning Music School Painting

My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.

Fun Me Website Kind Get Drawings

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.

Identity Writing Important Fiction

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

People Think Laugh Cry Almost Than

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.

Love Me Editing Knowing Hunger Out

There was a time when radio stations wouldn't play Gaga's music because it was considered dance. Outside of live performances, the Internet became our primary tool to help people discover her music.

Live Music Time Dance People Help

We live in an anaesthetized society.

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