Emil Cioran Quotes
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
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I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
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I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.
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In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.
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I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend.
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My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.
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If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.
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When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.
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The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.
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I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.
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We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.
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Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.
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Well, I'm happier talking about other people than me.
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The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.
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Two enemies - the same man divided.
