Emil Cioran Quotes
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids.
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I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I'm proud of my stats, but I don't think I ever got on for.
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I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.
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Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
