Emil Cioran Quotes
I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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How does one get bored of life?
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.
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Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
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I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
