Emil Cioran Quotes

What is marvelous is that each day brings us a new reason to disappear.

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• The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Thoughts
  • Acting

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Government
  • Advertising

• People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Future
  • Science

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Time
  • Famous

• Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Will
  • Seeing
  • Racial

• Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Intelligent
  • Very
  • Pigs

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

  

  Raekwon
  • Business
  • History
  • Marketing

• Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Person
  • Memories
  • Stories

• I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Better
  • Looking

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Society

• I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Community
  • Football
  • Player

• A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Time
  • Fear

• For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Church
  • Shoes

• I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Italian

• Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Thinking
  • Gay
  • Magic

• The question for Dropbox is whether, when they run out of private sources for funding, they will be able to maintain that valuation when they go to public sources for funding and their valuation is set on the public markets.

  

  Aileen Lee
  • Question

• What is marvelous is that each day brings us a new reason to disappear.

  

  Emil Cioran