Elias Canetti Quotes
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
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To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not.
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People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.
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I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.
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Democrats cannot conceive of 'hate speech' towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.
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Las pequeñeces son lo eterno, y lo demás. todo lo demás, lo breve, lo muy breve
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I hate judgments that only crush and don’t transform.
