Emil Cioran Quotes
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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No one is going to remember a second-place team.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
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I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!
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Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.
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I have to understand the rules here in England.
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Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
