Emil Cioran Quotes
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
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My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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Round numbers are always false.
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The object before us, to begin with, material production.
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Most people don’t listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By...
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I get it, I really do, but at the same time, it's creepy. It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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The world is all that is the case. (1)
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There was always some kind of strain, but it was workable. The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because in your everyday life, you're less used to compromising. As you get bigger, you have your own way. But in a partnership you always have to compromise. … When you get into a partnership, you're not the boss. There's no boss. That makes it hard.
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Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.
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Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
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Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future.
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I like to go into a space, listen, absorb, and then interpret.
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It is difficult to single out any one player, as I aim to give my best against every single player that I have played so far against.
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The Creation was the first act of sabotage.
