Emil Cioran Quotes

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • May
  • Think
  • Learn

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Good
  • Think
  • Here

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Love
  • Night

• Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Art

• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations. The International was never concerned with it. The International is dead, paralyzed by events. Ten million proletarians are today on the battlefield.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Today

• Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

  

  Billy Rose
  • Painting

• I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Time
  • Player

• A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • America

• I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Quality
  • Pride

• Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

  

  Marianne Vos
  • Great
  • History
  • Thanks

• I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Movie

• Poor and most middle-class people believe "If I have a lot of money, I could do what I want and I'd be a success." Rich people understand, "If I become a successful person, I will be able to do what I need to do to have what I want, including a lot of money."

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• 'Cause what she's doin' now is tearin' me apart,Fillin' up my mind and emptyin' my heart.I can hear her call each time the cold wind blows,And I wonder if she knows...what she's doin' now.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

  

  Erland Josephson
  • Found
  • Movement
  • Cameras

• The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Motherhood

• Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

  

  Tom Araya Slayer
  • Confess
  • Murdered
  • God Loves Me

• If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Desire
  • Actions
  • Inspires