Emil Cioran Quotes
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.
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If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.
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I always try to slip healthy things by my kids. I give them sweet potato French fries and fake chicken nuggets.
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If someone tells me that something can't be done, that makes me more determined to do it.
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If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.
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To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
