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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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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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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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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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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It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
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Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.
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When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.
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The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise.
