Franz Kafka Quotes
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
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I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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It is easy to react if everything is going great.
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I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.
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America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
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I'm an ass-kicking fat kid.
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Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
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The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
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In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.
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Most of my issues that mankind sets out to settle, it never does settle… The dispute fades into the past unsolved, though perhaps it may be renewed as history and fought over again. It disappears because it is replaced by some compromise that, although not wholly acceptable to either side, offers a tolerable substitute for victory…
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I hear them mumblin, I hear the cacklin I got em scared, shook, panickin
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
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I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.
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The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.
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The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.
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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
