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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Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.
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When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.
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I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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I know some women's rights activists have seen so much abuse that they can't stand men, but I have a sense of empathy with the men. Without excusing the abuse they are capable of, many of them are trapped within these communities and bound by expectations they didn't necessarily ask for.
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I used to be an awful asker. I was the 14-year-old who didn't correct the family I would babysit for when they gave me less money than we had agreed to, because it felt rude and scary.
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
