Elias Canetti Quotes
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
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I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
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I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Consistency is very important when you're making films.
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I've always been very determined. I don't get easily discouraged.
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When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.
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When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
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some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.
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When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.
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Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
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Alles, was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe.
