Emil Cioran Quotes
What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed!
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When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.
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For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.
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It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
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It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.
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What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed!
