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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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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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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You can never take a day off, because there's an All-Star on every team.
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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.
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'Ever mind the Rule of Three...Three times what thou givest returns to thee.'
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Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.
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I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.
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I was the kid jamming out to the songs on the radio, and now there's hopefully kids out there jamming out to my music.
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I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'
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Is it conceivable to adhere to a religion founded by someone else?
