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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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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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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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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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 -
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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Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn't to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can't just walk away from trade.
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If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
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..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation..
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I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
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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.
