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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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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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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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!
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My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and you have to go on instinct.
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For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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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.
