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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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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One of the first times I wrote about Robin Williams for 'The New York Times,' I interviewed him for a feature about 'World's Greatest Dad,' a dark comedy he starred in for his friend, the writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait.
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For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.
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A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.
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So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
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Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.
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That fear which gives birth to thoughts, and the fear of thoughts…
