Emil Cioran Quotes
When we know what words are worth, the amazing thing is that we try to say anything at all, and that we manage to do so. This requires, it is true, a supernatural nerve.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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No two wars are identical.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
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Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.
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The alternative to getting help from the IMF would be economic policies so savage I think they would produce riots in the streets, an immediate fall in living standards and unemployment of three million.
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I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.
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Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.
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When we know what words are worth, the amazing thing is that we try to say anything at all, and that we manage to do so. This requires, it is true, a supernatural nerve.
