Emil Cioran Quotes
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Cardinal Richelieu -
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
Harold Bloom -
I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
Dan DeCarlo -
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.
Becky Lynch -
I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.
Faith Hill -
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
Randy Newman
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I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
Illeana Douglas -
I don't like when I look too cluttered.
Felicity Jones -
Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.
Camille Pissarro -
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Sam Harris -
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said. . . But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
Anne Hutchinson
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and every one has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
Charles Darwin -
Non conosce la pace e non l'estimaChi provato non ha la guerra prima.
Ludovico Ariosto -
I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.
Keegan-Michael Key -
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
Elin Hilderbrand -
It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
David Bryan Bon Jovi -
It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.
Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
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All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
Edouard Rene de Laboulaye -
When I booked 'This Is Us,' I had 81 cents in my bank account.
Chrissy Metz -
Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.
Bonnie Bedelia -
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
Saint Bernard -
I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
Weird Al Yankovic -
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Emil Cioran