Emil Cioran Quotes
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.
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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
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'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
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For me, the greatest thing a movie can do is rivet you while you're watching but also give you something to chew on for days and weeks after you've seen it.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting.
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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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There is a fearful moment of reckoning before us should it ever chance that when all our trees shall have been sacrificed on the altar of the patron-fiend of news, the newspaper supply shall suddenly be cut off and we find ourselves some fine morning minus our tidbits of shame and failure and disaster, left to the companionship of our own thoughts. Dante never imagined a terror like this.
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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
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The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.
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I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.
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Erect I make a resolution; prone I revoke it.
