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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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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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
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My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.
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I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.
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The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.
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God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.
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I hate judgments that only crush and don’t transform.
