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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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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I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.
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The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D.
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There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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By attending to the conscious part of ourselves, we contribute to the peace of others as well as ourselves.
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I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
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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.
