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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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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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 not quite sure how I would do babysitting.
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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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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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I'm an actor. It's what I do. It's what I chose to do with my life when I was a little boy, and that's what Im still doing. I like to work. I came up with a work ethic, and that's just what I do.
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Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes in the court of public opinion.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
