Emil Cioran Quotes
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Emil Cioran
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
Ulysses S. Grant
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
Balaji Srinivasan
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People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!
Wanda Sykes
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
Aaron Sorkin
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I used to wonder because I never thought I looked like either of my parents, but now I think I look like a conglomeration.
Talia Balsam
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
Aasif Mandvi
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I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
Wale
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
Val Kilmer
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I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.
Nargis Fakhri
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Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
Lars von Trier
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Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.
Wendy Kopp
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During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though I was born in Cyprus, my parents were American, and so I was an outsider in the land of my birth.
Angela Bowie
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I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.
Richard Pryor
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Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.
Emile Gaboriau
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With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it's a vigilante military, the state is in disarray, and there is no reference point for authenticity, so it's just weapons work and circumstantial fighting.
Jai Courtney
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Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
Thomas Hobbes
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Emil Cioran
