Elias Canetti Quotes
He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.-How contemptible!
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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The world is in motion, as it seems.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
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I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
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As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.
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Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.
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I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
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Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
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The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
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Rock Hudson was on his deathbed, going, 'It was that last fucking dick... god DAMN it, why did I suck it, WHY DID I SUCK IT!?!? I was ahead of the game, Mister! Million of dicks, never had a problem before-dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck; dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck. Never had a problem-IT WAS THAT LAST GODDAMN DICK!!!'
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I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.
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The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.
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There's a bigger universe at hand.
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I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
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He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.-How contemptible!
