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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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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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
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I had throat cancer, and I had to have radiation treatments, and I couldn't sing for a long time; and this was in '97. I had 28 radiation treatments. I didn't die, thank God.
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It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.
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A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation.
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Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!
