Emil Cioran Quotes
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.
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I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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I am a woman above everything else.
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? … No other human institution comes close.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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Andy Griffith His pursuit of excellence and the joy he took in creating served generations & shaped my life I'm forever grateful RIP Andy.
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A hungry man is an angry man.
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I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that.
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I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.
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I prefer love over sex.
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Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
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If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
