Emil Cioran Quotes
The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their life a meaning.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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In manufacturing food for its own cells, the plant is producing a supply of food that will be available for the sustenance of animal cells also. Thus the entire animal World may be said to be a vast parasitic colony as absolutely dependent upon the vegetable colony for its essential food supplies as any other parasite is dependent upon its host.
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needed to offer a personal, passionate and sincere renunciation of racism and segregation in all its forms, and he did that.
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We believe GMOs are safe.
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The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their life a meaning.
