Elias Canetti Quotes
Nothing was better for you than humiliation, for there was nothing you felt more deeply.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
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I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.
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But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
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The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future.
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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
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God loves us all, and all of us are equal in God's sight.
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I refuse to rot like my contemporaries I want to explode in a karaoke supernova I don't wanna grow old Won't you let me, won't you let me explode?
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I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Nothing was better for you than humiliation, for there was nothing you felt more deeply.
