Emil Cioran Quotes
Let us speak plainly: everything which keeps us from self-dissolution, every lie which protects us against our unbreathable certitudes is religious.Emil Cioran
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I write in a small office at home.
Walter Dean Myers -
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
Ha-Joon Chang -
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
M. J. Rose -
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
T. C. Boyle -
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
Natasha Little
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
Gary Jennings -
I was not really as good as I should have been.
Eddie Albert -
I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
Carice van Houten -
The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
Calvin Peete -
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
Natalie Dormer -
It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
Lara Stone
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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
Felix Dennis -
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
Weili Dai -
There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
Candace Bushnell -
I'm very humble.
Zach LaVine -
In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
Natascha McElhone -
To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.
Laura Wasser
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
Paul D. Boyer -
The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
Utkarsh Ambudkar -
For the first time I began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the 'Upnishads', and the 'Bhagavad Gita'.
Jawaharlal Nehru -
You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
Barry Silbert -
Let us speak plainly: everything which keeps us from self-dissolution, every lie which protects us against our unbreathable certitudes is religious.
Emil Cioran