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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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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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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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 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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We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.
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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.
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We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people.
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Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.
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We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
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Thus far we run before the wind.
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It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.
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A curious paradox: people have only the narrowest private interest in mind when they act, yet they are at the same time more than ever determined in their behavior by the instincts of the mass. ... The diversity of individual goals is immaterial in face of the identity of the determining forces.
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For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
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Philosophy's error is to be too endurable.
