Emil Cioran Quotes
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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History's a resource.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.
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The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
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Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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If I'm able to win the world championships when I'm not even at my best, then with another year until Rio, maybe I could even become Olympic champion.
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To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.
