Emil Cioran Quotes
How can you know if you are in the truth? The criterion is simple enough: if others make a vacuum around you, there is not a doubt in the world that you are closer to the essential than they are.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
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And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled the world, I lived out of a suitcase. I stayed up until dawn. I did all of those things that were very exciting.
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Being a kid's not easy. You're transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you're out in the world.
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My style icon has always been Sidney Poitier.
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There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, 'The future of computer power is pure simplicity.'
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How can you know if you are in the truth? The criterion is simple enough: if others make a vacuum around you, there is not a doubt in the world that you are closer to the essential than they are.
