Emil Cioran Quotes
Facing a landscape annihilated by the light, to remain serene supposes a temper I do not have. The sun is my purveyor of black thoughts; and summer the season when I have always reconsidered my relations with this world and with myself, to the greatest prejudice of both.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.
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I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.
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I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group.
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I've played at the Comedy Studio. I never did as an undergrad, but I have in recent years, whenever I've gone back to anything at Harvard, I've tried to go there and do some sets.
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Facing a landscape annihilated by the light, to remain serene supposes a temper I do not have. The sun is my purveyor of black thoughts; and summer the season when I have always reconsidered my relations with this world and with myself, to the greatest prejudice of both.
