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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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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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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Today war seems to have undergone a change of meaning, insofar as it is not a war of religion but a war of interests, not a war of conflicting cultures or civilizations but a war of national areas, not a war of human beings but a technical struggle of machines one against another and all against the non–combatant population.
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Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.
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As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.
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In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.
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As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.
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I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.
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My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
