Emil Cioran Quotes
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.
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Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.
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Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
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For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
