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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't want to be a bust.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
-
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.
-
I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
-
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.
-
I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
-
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.
-
I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
-
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
-
We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
-
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
-
I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
-
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
-
I can't approach a character with judgment.
-
I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.
-
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.
