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.
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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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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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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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I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
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My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.
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Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
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You can be politically correct if you want, but are you trying to say we don't have a problem? ... Most Muslims, like most everything, I mean, these are fabulous people... But we certainly do have a problem, I mean, you have a problem throughout the world. ... It wasn't people from Sweden that blew up the World Trade Center.
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There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.
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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.
