Emil Cioran Quotes
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
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By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
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My freshman year, I played third, and sophomore and junior, third.
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
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My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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I’m used to that. It often seems to me that’s all detective work is - wiping out your false starts and beginning again.
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I don't consider myself a food person. I'm no Bobby Flay. I'm no Emeril or Paula Deen, and I'm certainly not Rachael Ray.
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Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.
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I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
