Emil Cioran Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
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It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.
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There is always someone above you: beyond God Himself rises Nothingness.
