Emil Cioran Quotes
I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I feel it's so easy to condemn this country the United States; but they don't understand that this is where the mistakes are being made - and made first, so that we're going to get the answers first.
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I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago.
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The Idealization of deep flaws seeping through coiled cracks;The reality we all want to avoid is a plagued sickness we choose to live with.
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It is important that when we rebuild this historic city that we consider the safety of the citizens first.
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I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.
