Emil Cioran Quotes
The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
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If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.
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Looking back on my career, some of the hardest times - eight people at a show, 12 people on a bus - were some of the most fun.
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I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.
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Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.
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The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.
