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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If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.
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Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
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In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.
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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
