Elias Canetti Quotes
I can’t be twenty-two again. I can’t subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I am here to change anything. I'm here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul and what is not.
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I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
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But where are the snows of yester year?
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I follow my heart in almost every instance, and it gets me in trouble most of the time. But I don't care. I think that's the best way I can live.
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I can’t be twenty-two again. I can’t subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.
