Emil Cioran Quotes

It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

Emil Cioran

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• And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

  

  Bai Ling
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• Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

  

  Idina Menzel
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  • Problems
  • Stand

• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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  • Great
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• I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

  

  Taiye Selasi
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• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  

  Flavius Josephus
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• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
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• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
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• Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
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• Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

  

  P. J. Soles
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• I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

  

  Tacitus
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• For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

  

  Fernando Alonso
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• There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.

  

  Sam Altman
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• Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.

  

  Claire Denis
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• In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

  

  Bobby Farrelly Boney M.
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  • Comedy

• Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

  

  Julia Roberts
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• There is nothing I enjoy more than doing my show.

  

  Joel Grey

• As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

  

  John Trumbull
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• It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Great
  • Live
  • Ambition