Emil Cioran Quotes
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
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We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.
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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
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This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.
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Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
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Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
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Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.
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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
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3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
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A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
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I will give my life to whoever in need, to any dear friend of mine.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
