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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You're starting to see a lot of fighters, like, 'We want more money so we can be able to retire eventually,' instead of, we get to 30 years old, and we're like, 'Alright, I think Costco has openings.'
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The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
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The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.
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If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
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Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
