Emil Cioran Quotes
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
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I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.
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Every set is a different experience, so it's hard to say which one's my favorite.
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My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
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Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,When in the white bed all things are made.
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Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
