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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The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.
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You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.
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I think the worst professional advice I received was this kind of unspoken message of "sit back and wait your turn," or "sit back and wait and let other people do things."
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A cauliflower shows how an object can be made of many parts, each of which is like a whole, but smaller. Many plants are like that. A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth but irregularities at a smaller scale.
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Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.
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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.
