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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I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models - I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations.
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Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late 20s or 30s and sometimes not even then. Or so it would appear. To me anyway. Don't you think the same?
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
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Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
