Elias Canetti Quotes
'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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What matters most is the win.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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I love to bake. Cakes are my specialty - they have to be moist and sugary.
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Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level.
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We've been writing a little, but the hardest thing about writing on the road is it's difficult to get deep and flush out an idea you always have to go do something.
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God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.
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'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.
