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Lapo Elkann Quotes

My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Ideas Independent Old Office Here

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Work Future History Imagination Past

In my view, Obamacare is the most existential threat to our economy than anything we've ever had since the Great Depression, so I think a little bit of additional deficit is nothing compared to delaying if not repealing Obamacare.

Great Depression Great Depression

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around. I get to go to the shop and buy bread and milk, and no one worries me.

Me Go Bread Now Milk Buy

You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he's going to the basket, you don't give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can't go in the lane.

Team You Go Him Lane Coming

For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It's something quite natural for me to go on the court and suffer, and to go in the gym and to suffer, and to know the only way to get better is to work out - that's what I like.

Work Suffering Me Better Motivation

To be selling out shows and these kids who don't speak English singing along every word? It's wild.

Singing Speak Selling Wild Out Kids

Coaches are always important for players.

Important Always Players Coaches

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Family Start Too Much Blood Never

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

Clarence Thomas

Water People You Drink Kid Out

I never get obsessed with ratings, partly because the Channel series 'Utopia,' which I did, had small ratings but a passionate following, which allowed a second series.

Alistair Petrie

Small Never Passionate Utopia Get

Everything I do, I try to think, 'Okay, what are the ramifications?' Like, with the clothes I wear, I prefer if it's grown organically, because cotton - which is what's used in most clothing - takes up 50 percent of all pesticide use.

Woody Harrelson

Think Clothes Try Okay Cotton Up

I gained 50 pounds when I was carrying my baby.

Baby Carrying Pounds Gained

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