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.
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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.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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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.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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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.
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I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
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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.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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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.
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Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.
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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.
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A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.
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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.
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Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.
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Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.
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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
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We are taking very drastic actions to reduce the risk of avian influenza to animals and birds.
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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."
