Emil Cioran Quotes
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
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I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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I hate exercising self-control.
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When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'
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The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.
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I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
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But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
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I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.
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I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.
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In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
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The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal.
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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.
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There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.
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Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
