Emil Cioran Quotes
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men’s souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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'Look after him, Lieutenant. An army isn't made of it's officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.'
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It has been a long time since philosophers have read men’s souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.
