Emil Cioran Quotes
After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?
