Emil Cioran Quotes
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
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A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
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I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
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Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
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I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.
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There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
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I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.
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It’s the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.
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Rock and roll is about having a good time, so no matter where you are right now blast some music and forget about lifes problems.
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I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.
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I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.
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Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
