Emil Cioran Quotes
The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their life a meaning.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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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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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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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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Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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Many of the patients in military and veterans hospitals require long stays, which can place a large financial hardship on families who don't live near the hospital, which is very common.
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The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their life a meaning.
