Elias Canetti Quotes
One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.
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I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
