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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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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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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Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
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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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I certainly have opinions about things, but we're a service organization. Our job is to try and realize the director's vision.
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For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.
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Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)
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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
