Emil Cioran Quotes
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
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I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.
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I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.
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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
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The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
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Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.
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I don't do the same show twice. I've never done a show word for word.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.
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Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.
