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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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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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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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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We've always loved the automobile, and we all love Henry Ford's original vision to open the highways to all mankind, the freedom and movement.
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I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
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The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
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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.
