Emil Cioran Quotes
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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You can't help but be in awe of the athletic abilities of the WWE Superstars.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every year, I looked forward to Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things episode. I watched with my notebook computer in my lap so I could Google the items and order them for the friends and family on my holiday gift-giving list.
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Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.
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The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps
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There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.
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I'd love to do a Western.
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
