Emil Cioran Quotes
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.Emil Cioran
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
Ed Bradley -
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner -
My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
Katee Sackhoff -
I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
Salli Richardson -
But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
Hannes Alfven -
Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
M. J. Rose -
It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
Rainbow Rowell -
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan -
We've just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.
Yoon Ahn -
I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.
Frances Conroy
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I'm always focused.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.
Van Morrison -
I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.
Dalai Lama -
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
Virginia Woolf -
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
William Butler Yeats
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Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.
Haruki Murakami -
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
Alan Cumming -
Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Emil Cioran