Franz Kafka Quotes
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.
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I have, indeed, lived most of my life overseas, but I've returned repeatedly to work in film, special television productions, and the New York theater. There have also been tributes and similar occasions that have called me back to Hollywood. I've returned so often, I almost feel that I've never left.
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.
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To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.
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Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.
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I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
