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 do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.
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Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.
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The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
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I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.
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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.
