Emil Cioran Quotes

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

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• It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

  

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• While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.

  

  Park Shin-hye
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• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
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• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• My father had very little formal education.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
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• We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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• Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

  

  B. D. Wong
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• In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

  

  Karen Allen
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• Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
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• No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
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• There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.

  

  A.J. Styles
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• Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

  

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• I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

  

  Ben Saunders
  • Death
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• I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

  

  Dierks Bentley
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• I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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• Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Time
  • Death
  • Cheating