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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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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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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Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
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I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
