Elias Canetti Quotes
If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word 'God' merely because it was always there.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.
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I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.
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The sum of all that lives is God.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
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About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.
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If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word 'God' merely because it was always there.
