Emil Cioran Quotes
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Rights presuppose duties, if they are not to become mere licence
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When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.
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Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.
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If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
