Emil Cioran Quotes

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

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• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Never
  • Nervous

• The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Struggle
  • Deceit
  • Preserve

• It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Happy
  • Movies
  • Taught

• I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Think
  • Attention

• Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • World
  • Guy
  • Know

• It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Father
  • Responsibility

• I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Never
  • Movies
  • Falling

• Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Think
  • Body
  • Need

• The team at ASCAP is a genuine family, and I am proud to be part of an organization that is home to so many legendary songwriters and composers.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Home
  • Team

• Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Passion

• Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Society
  • Without
  • Theology

• Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Doing
  • Boring

• The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Citizens
  • Ideal
  • Muslims

• 'Hugo Chávez is going to make Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent... he is an out-of-control dictator... a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly.' 6

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Control
  • Hurt
  • Enemy

• If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Truth

• It was wonderful playing a young queen with so much power. I think it will be good for young women to see a strong woman of action who is also smart and a leader.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• They're making a joke of our universe

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Universe

• I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do. And I read him so religiously, I wanted to work for him before I died.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Work

• The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strength

• I normally joke around between songs to alleviate some of the heaviness - for the crowd, but also for myself. Tonight I just didn’t have that side of it in me.

  

  John Paul White
  • Songs
  • Joke
  • Crowd

• The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

  

  Emil Cioran