Emil Cioran Quotes
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I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
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I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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I've always just been attracted to comedy.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.
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We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.
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It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.
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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.
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Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade to the void.
