Elias Canetti Quotes

Say the most personal thing, say it, nothing else matters, don’t be ashamed, the generalities can be found in the newspaper.

Elias Canetti

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• Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • City
  • Crazy
  • Same

• You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Start
  • Internet
  • Performance

• You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • History
  • Respect

• No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Say
  • Pressure

• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedian

• About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Helped

• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Happy

• Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Human
  • Accidents
  • Genetic

• By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • War
  • Pressure
  • Weapons

• In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Sometimes
  • English
  • Speak

• Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Up
  • Good
  • Experience

• If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Like
  • Pull
  • Trigger

• I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Change

• You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Think

• When I think about the person who's been most in my ear, it's Joe Dumars.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • Person
  • Ear

• The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Learning
  • Understanding
  • Content

• Donna, donna, dark, Stooping in indigo gown And cloudy constellations, Conceal yourself or disclose Fewest things to the lover - A hand that bears a thick-leaved fruit, A pungent bloom against your shade.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Hand
  • Dark

• Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Life
  • Small
  • Road

• You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Heart
  • Moving
  • Teach

• Approximately 400 cuts - that would make 25 percent of the total - use CGI. I worked on the Steamboy's animation production based on the usual handwriting method. Digital animation is just supplementary. I didn't do anything surprising, because the idea is to overcome the limitation of expressions done by handwriting with the help of CGI.

  

  Katsuhiro Otomo
  • Cutting
  • Overcoming
  • Animation

• Say the most personal thing, say it, nothing else matters, don’t be ashamed, the generalities can be found in the newspaper.

  

  Elias Canetti