Emil Cioran Quotes
If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I love New York. Love it.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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Be in love with your life every detail of it
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
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As a source of objective morality, the Bible is one of the worst books we have. It might be the very worst, in fact-if we didn't also happen to have the Qur'an.
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It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that’s not very cool. It’s not just selfish, it’s kinda sick and unhealthy.
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I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.
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I am not one of those who thinks that Congress needs to be in session 24 hours a day interfering in peoples' lives.
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I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
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I don't have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn't have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.
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As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.
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I've been putting 100% of work into defense like I do hitting because that way I can help my team more.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.
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If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds.
