Emil Cioran Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'
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Making music sees Cantrell through death and dark times. SeattlePi.com (May 17, 2002).
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It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet.
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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
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Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.
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Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
