Elias Canetti Quotes
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.
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Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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Another irritating thing about Naqsans was their habit of solemnly repeating the obvious. In that respect they were almost as bad as humans.
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Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.
