Emil Cioran Quotes
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Programs like TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, formerly known as AFDC) and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads. In effect, they create, as we have seen, future welfare recipients. Or tax spenders.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
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They weave a slow andante as in sleep,Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white;With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keepA treachery of silence; infinite.
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I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.
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It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush. A horrible gut wrenching thing, but it's exciting.
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I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.
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So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
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The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
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I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do.
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I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.
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In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
