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've never made a plan for my life. I have just taken whatever opportunities have come and been very genuine with them.
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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
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When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.
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We haven't had the success we had hoped to achieve. Josh McDaniels is the head coach of the Broncos and you always strive for stability at that position. However, with five games left in the 2010 season, we will continue to monitor the progress of the team and evaluate what's in the best interest of this franchise.
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The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.