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.

Elias Canetti

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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.

  

  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.

  

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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.

  

  Harold Pinter
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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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• Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

  

  Andy Garcia
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• You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

  

  Dwight Henry
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• If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!

  

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• I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• A screenwriter is wise to have a life elsewhere.

  

  Frederic Raphael
  • Life
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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.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Help