Emil Cioran Quotes
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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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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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!
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You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.
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You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.
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Theology passes; religion, as a sentiment or feeling of awe and reverence in the presence of the vastness and mystery of the universe, remains.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.
