Emil Cioran Quotes
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
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I don't fear anything now.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there’s no excuse for that. It’s not something I’ll let happen to me again.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?
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I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
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I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
