Emil Cioran Quotes
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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All rappers are princesses like me.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
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The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.
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Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it. One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance. But I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.
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I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along.
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If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.
