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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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."
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Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
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I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
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It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.
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One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
