Emil Cioran Quotes
The lover who kills himself for a girl has an experience which is more complete and much more profound than the hero who overturns the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
-
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
-
We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
-
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
-
It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
-
I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
-
I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
-
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
-
All the terrorists are basically migrants.
-
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
-
In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
-
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
-
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
-
People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
-
Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
-
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.
-
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
-
We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
-
One of the reasons Americans hold Washington in such low regard is the perception that nothing ever gets done. Whatever the issue - no matter how urgent - they always seem to be 'working on it.'
-
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
-
The world needs some help.
-
I'm super and very openly obsessed with voice-over. 'In a World...' was my love letter to the industry of voice-over. And in a way, I sometimes think of it as a 93-minute audition to the voice-over industry to say, 'Hey. Consider me!'
-
We have made mistakes! We were too late. If we had presented our national interests more clearly from the beginning, the world would still be in balance today.
-
The lover who kills himself for a girl has an experience which is more complete and much more profound than the hero who overturns the world.
