Emil Cioran Quotes
The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character - precisely that and nothing more.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
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I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to accept every movie that comes along.
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I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.
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It really helps me to get into the character of the record when I have a designated look. It just really simplifies things for me.
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There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.
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The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character - precisely that and nothing more.
