Lapo Elkann Quotes

I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.

Lapo Elkann

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I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

Jody Hill

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The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

Jerry Saltz

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The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

John Eisenhower

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Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?

John Clayton

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We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.

John Lanchester

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People might just decide, 'Yeah, I'll diversify my portfolio. I'll live in a rental.' That is a very sensible thing for many people to do.

Robert J. Shiller

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I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

Stefan Hell

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When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America,' and for me, that was an achievement.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

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I am definitely one of those girls who want to get married. I have two sisters and they are both married with kids, and I'm like, 'Oh, I want that.'

Sophie Monk

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For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them.

Michelle Ryan

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I'm away about six months of the year, competing here in the U.K. or in training camps in Arizona, Ethiopia, the Pyrenees.

Mo Farah

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There has always been tension between reporters and the administration, particularly when it comes to war in the modern era. You can go to Kennedy or Johnson and see that they weren't happy with David Halberstam or Morley Safer.

Lowell Bergman

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