Lapo Elkann famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury.
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I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.
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London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
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I am in love with cars; I love anything that moves,
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I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.
-- Lapo Elkann
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
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Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.
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To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.
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Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.
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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.
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