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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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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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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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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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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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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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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In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
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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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I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.
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My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
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Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.
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When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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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.
