Emil Cioran Quotes
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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On the field, I went from an anonymous redshirt to a short-yardage specialist to a Heisman Trophy candidate. Off the field, I showed up as a wild kid and grew up.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
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When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.
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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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Multos in summa pericula misitventuri timor ipse mali. Fortissimus ille estqui, promptus metuenda pati, si comminus instent,et differre potest.
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At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.
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If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.
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Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
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It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.
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I cant sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. Im shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.
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Philosophy's error is to be too endurable.
