Emil Cioran Quotes
We suffer: the external world begins to exist...; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.
Quotes to Explore
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere else.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
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Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
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The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
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We suffer: the external world begins to exist...; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.
