Elias Canetti Quotes
'He is a lesser figure than X'-how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.
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Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.
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Shah Rukh Khan is the love of my life. I love Aamir Khan also.
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Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
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Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
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Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right!
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The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.
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I've always liked new writing.
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I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.
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I could almost shed a tear but let’s shine in the time we have remaining you’re a tough old gal but a dog is just a pal and believe me, my dear, I’m not complaining
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At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit.
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'He is a lesser figure than X'-how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.
