Emil Cioran Quotes
Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.
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I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
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Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
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More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
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To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.
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That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
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If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
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I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.
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A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.
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All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.
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A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
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I have a healthy addiction to binge-watching TV.
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Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.
