Emil Cioran Quotes
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.
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Don't get me wrong – I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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Nudity in a picture is such a delicate thing, and it is so rarely right. But it can be right if it's done by people with beautiful vision and if it becomes part of the melody of the situation. The body, after all, is a beautiful and secret thing.
Nastassja Kinski
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It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.
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I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.
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Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.
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It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.
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I don't choose the songs; the songs choose me.
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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.
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I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.
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I want to encourage the non-star, low-profile film, and maybe we've got a chance.
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Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
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Make a decision and then make the decision right. Line up your Energy with it. In most cases it doesn't really matter what you decide. Just decide. There are endless options that would serve you enormously well, and all or any one of them is better than no decision.
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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
