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 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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I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.
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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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Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.
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The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
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Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
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Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.
