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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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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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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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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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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A lot of the time with an independent production, you go onto the set, and you rehearse it in front of the crew, and at that point, the cinematographer takes over. You start accommodating the camera instead of the camera accommodating you.
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Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it. The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.
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Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
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I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.
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If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.
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I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
