Elias Canetti Quotes
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
Rachel Zoe -
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.
Zoe Kravitz -
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.
Laura Benanti -
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.
Mallory Ortberg -
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.
Adam Clarke -
No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
Jack Canfield
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
Carine Roitfeld -
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.
Calvin Johnson -
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.
Karen Armstrong -
I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
Gary Bettman -
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.
Ram Shriram -
I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
Laura Slade Wiggins
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz -
The greatest evil is physical pain.
Saint Augustine -
I've always been very determined. I don't get easily discouraged.
Kalpana Chawla -
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.
Sam Farr -
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
Madame de Stael -
Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.
Zoe Kravitz
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Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.
Lindi Ortega -
My body is one that kind of looks at weights, and then all of a sudden, I have muscle.
Cynthia Erivo -
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
Sandy Koufax -
I used to spray tan a lot when I was a teenager. The last time I got spray-tanned was for the Golden Globes. And I was like, 'I love spray-tanning so much.' I still really like it. But it definitely makes me look like I have leprosy, after a point.
Emma Stone -
I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
Billy Joel -
Alles, was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe.
Elias Canetti