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.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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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.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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My father had very little formal education.
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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.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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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.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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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.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.
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So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
