Emil Cioran Quotes
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.
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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
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Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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When I have a family, I will be retired.
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Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences.
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Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.
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Is it conceivable to adhere to a religion founded by someone else?
