Franz Kafka Quotes
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
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I love Twitter.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
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My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
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I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
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Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
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English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
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I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
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The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
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In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
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Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.
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For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project, right away, from an acting standpoint, you go, 'Wow. That'd be great to be part of that. What a career move that'd be.'
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In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.
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I can act... well, kind of. I'm comfortable in front of a camera.
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Meanness is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
