Emil Cioran Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
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We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.
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When you take the individual out of the equation, then you're making programming based on some marketer's idea of what will sell, and not based on the idea of what an individual would like.
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To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
