Emil Cioran Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Money without brains is always dangerous.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites.
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Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.
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It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.
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Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.
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That fear which gives birth to thoughts, and the fear of thoughts…
