Emil Cioran Quotes
The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the 'meaning' of life.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
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All empires are created of blood and fire.
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the 'meaning' of life.
