Elias Canetti Quotes
You don’t have to know a philosopher’s every syllable to know why he rubs you the wrong way. You may know it best after a few of his sentences, and les and less well after that. The important thing is to see his web and move away before you tear it.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine.
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It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied – they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
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You don’t have to know a philosopher’s every syllable to know why he rubs you the wrong way. You may know it best after a few of his sentences, and les and less well after that. The important thing is to see his web and move away before you tear it.
