Emil Cioran Quotes
In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left...with a foolish grin.
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I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
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My first car was a 1999 red Mazda Protege.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.
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The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.
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What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.
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I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'
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In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left...with a foolish grin.
