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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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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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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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
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Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
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I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
