Elias Canetti Quotes
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
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The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
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When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
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The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
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Talent is only the starting point.
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Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
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We all, everyone one of us, carry a star inside our chests. ...Light and darkness are always side-by-side. If you show even the slightest fear or tears to the darkness, it will immediately swell and come attacking, and swallow up the light. Serenity, in order to defeat the darkness and dark souls, you must keep the star inside your chest burning brightly at all times. That is your most important charge.
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Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.
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The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
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It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
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One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
