Emil Cioran Quotes
The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.
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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
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Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise.
