Elias Canetti Quotes
I can’t be twenty-two again. I can’t subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.Elias Canetti
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
Yogi Berra -
They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
Larry Ellison -
You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
Foster Friess -
The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth -
I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
Karin Slaughter
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman -
Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
Hal Sparks -
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
J. G. Ballard -
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
Laura Wilkinson -
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
J. C. Watts -
It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
P. Chidambaram
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
Floyd Abrams -
My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. Lang -
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
Hal David -
The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!
Irma S. Rombauer -
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde
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I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.
Narada Michael Walden -
'Sucker Punch' was so demanding, it scared me a bit.
Daniel Kaluuya -
I've been training myself and listening to other artists and seeing where their emotion comes from, singing a heartbreak song when they're in a happy relationship.
Jessica Sanchez -
What I kind of want to spread as my message to all kinds of youth that I get to reach out to is, you can do cool stuff; you've just got to put in time and be dedicated.
Ann Makosinski -
I can’t be twenty-two again. I can’t subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.
Elias Canetti