Emil Cioran Quotes
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Good comedy is ageless.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.
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Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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If a democratic society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.
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The Presence all thy fancies supersedes, All that is done which thou wouldst seek in deeds, The wealth obliterates all seeming needs.
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We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
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My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
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I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
