Emil Cioran Quotes

Society: an inferno of saviors!

Emil Cioran

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Live
  • Moment
  • First

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Worry
  • Doing
  • Find

• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Old

• I'm not a huge fan of my work.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Fan
  • Huge

• People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Feeling
  • Universe
  • Thought

• Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • You
  • Education

• The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Know
  • Influence

• Ultimately, I didn't quite find the company I wanted to join, but I met more than 100 entrepreneurs and realized that all these entrepreneurs were just as unqualified as I was. If I wanted to be this retailer of the future, or if I wanted to join the retailer of the future, I could just start it.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Future

• I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Why

• Words and works eat not at one table.

  

  James Howell
  • Words

• Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Great
  • Character

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• Society: an inferno of saviors!

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Society