"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."

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Elias Canetti

#Fear Quotes #Boring Quotes #Pessimist Quotes

“I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.”
“Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.”
“I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.”
“Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.”

Source : "Naomie that girl". Interview with Dee O'Connell, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2002.
“Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.”

Source : "This Week's Model: Alessandra Ambrosio". Interview with Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.wmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.
“Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!”
“Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about.”
“When I'm not working out, playing football or working with Vita Coco, I'm a video game nerd. I love playing video games. I'm really good at FIFA. I'm not one of those guys that uses Barcelona or Real Madrid to win. My skills are real, so I don't need a loaded team to dominate. You don't want to play me in FIFA.”

Source : Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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