Franz Kafka Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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The special thing about 'Lost Girl' is it can be campy at times, but the show doesn't take itself too seriously, which is what separates it from other sci-fi TV shows. I love that.
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Just to eat is a gift.
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
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I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.
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By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
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In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.
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I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
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YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.
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The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.
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I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.
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At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.
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I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.
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I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to.
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We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
