Emil Cioran Quotes
Death poses a problem which replaces all the others. What is deadly to philosophy, to the naive belief in the hierarchy of perplexities.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.
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Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie. That's the first thing. You want to do it.
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The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
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A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.
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Death poses a problem which replaces all the others. What is deadly to philosophy, to the naive belief in the hierarchy of perplexities.
