Emil Cioran Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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I never felt that my life was not complete without a child. I don't know if that, as a younger man, I'd have had full appreciation for it.
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I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.
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The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.
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The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.
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Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.
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Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
