Emil Cioran Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.
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Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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I am - and have always been - a Methodist.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I am definitely a worrier.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.
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I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
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My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
