Emil Cioran Quotes
Is it conceivable to adhere to a religion founded by someone else?
Emil Cioran
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
Daniel Boulud
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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.
Kate Christensen
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
Irrfan Khan
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
Nancy Gibbs
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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.
Ramez Naam
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
Dan Phillips
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
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You can never take a day off, because there's an All-Star on every team.
Zach LaVine
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The dawn smiles, repelling gloom, At the dawn with violence, At every meet season, At the meet season of his turnings, At the four stages of his course, I will extol him that judges violence, Of the strong din, deep his wrath. I am not a man, cowardly, gray, A scum near the wattle.
Taliesin
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'Ever mind the Rule of Three...Three times what thou givest returns to thee.'
M. K. Hobson
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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
Larry Wall