Elias Canetti Quotes

When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.

Elias Canetti

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• You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • She
  • Character
  • Language

• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Television

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Writing
  • College
  • Day

• Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Hero

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Live
  • Real
  • Heart

• I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • May
  • True
  • Day

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Loved
  • Psychology
  • Self-Worth

• A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Free
  • Anger

• Big stories need human stakes.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Human
  • Need
  • Big

• I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Up
  • Die
  • Never

• Only puny secrets need protection. Big secrets are protected by public incredulity. You can actually dissipate a situation by giving it maximal coverage. As to alarming people, that's done by rumours, not by coverage. (p. 92)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • People
  • Done
  • Giving

• Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

  

  Theresa May
  • Communities
  • Public Service
  • Integrate

• Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.

  

  Lauren Beukes
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Women

• From day one when I first heard Liam's music I knew the potential was massive - that first tape I heard had a serious impact, it was so original. Every tune he has written since then has been a progression, going off at tangents, doing the opposite of what people expect him to.

  

  Maxim The Prodigy
  • Music
  • Liam`s
  • First tape

• When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.

  

  Elias Canetti