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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There's not a lot of time to have conversations on the field during the game. That's where the trust and the practice comes into play, through practice, through off-site throwing sessions; that's where you build that trust and build that cohesion with a wide receiver.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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I just have to come clean and admit I am an extremely, painfully slow writer. I have this unfortunate - or fortunate, I'm not sure which is correct - habit of editing while I'm writing which everyone tells me that I shouldn't do that. But that's just the way I write and I think it's important to stay true to your own writing style and momentum.
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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.
