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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• 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.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.

  

  Camila Alves
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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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
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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.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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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.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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• What matters most is the win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
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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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
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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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
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• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
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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.

  

  Venus Williams
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• The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Up
  • Storm
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• I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

  

  Mark Viduka
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• I always make music that is true to my spirit.

  

  Wynonna Judd
  • Music
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• Who's Kreacher?" "The house-elf who lives here," said Ron. "Nutter. Never met one like him." "He is not a nutter," said Hermione. "His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque like his mother", said Ron. "Is that normal, Hermione?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Life
  • Changed
  • Graffiti

• 'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Life
  • Experience
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