Emil Cioran Quotes
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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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 only routine with me is no routine at all.
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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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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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By electricity we have not been driven out of our senses so much as our senses have been driven out of us. (p. 375)
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.
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I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.
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Honestly, I would love to fight Henry Cejudo. You've got that gold medalist in the Olympics, I would love to test myself against that.
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A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life
