Emil Cioran Quotes
Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.
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If you look at the first TV stuff I did years ago, I've a pretty chubby look about me. I went at it quite hard in the gym at the time. If any footage of me ever came out from those days, I would genuinely die. I did step aerobics to lose the weight, and then I literally ran and ran the weight off on a treadmill.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!
