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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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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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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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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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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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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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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I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.
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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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In Bollywood, they like to put us in short clothes. And I am very shy; I don't like wearing revealing stuff, though my image is such. Unfortunately, it's a body-obsessed industry.
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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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I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.
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The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
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The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
