Emil Cioran Quotes
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.
Quotes to Explore
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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 am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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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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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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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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I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
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You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.
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Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.
