Emil Cioran Quotes
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
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I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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Ethel and Bernard returned from their Honymoon with a son and hair a nice fat baby called Ignatius Bernard. They soon had six more children four boys and three girls and some of them were twins which was very exciting. The Earl only got two rarther sickly girls called Helen and Marie because the last one looked slightly french.
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Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.
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You'll never slow the momentum at any moment I'm about to blow. Look at these rappers, how I treat them, So why the fuck would I join them when I beat them, They call me a freak, because I like to spit on these pussies before I eat them.
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If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don’t value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.
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Bring ice, thanks, Agnes
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How can you franchise hospitality?
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New mobile-payment-based models are, in some ways, more secure. Because in a model like Circle's, for example, we never transmit your personal information or your financial credentials to the people you're paying.
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When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.
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Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.
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I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.
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So what if sometimes Sam was an emotional exhibitionist, going up and down all the time? She could be a storm. But she could be a soft candle lighting up a dark room. So what if she made me a little crazy? All of it—all her emotional stuff, her ever-changing moods and tones of voice—it made her seem so incredibly alive.
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
