Emil Cioran Quotes
Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and - sans End!
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Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God.
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Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny.
