Elias Canetti Quotes
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
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I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
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Er erweist dem Tod nicht die Ehre.
