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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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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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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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.
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Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.
