Franz Kafka Quotes
Der Mensch kann nicht leben ohne ein dauerndes Vertrauen zu etwas Unzerstörbarem in sich, wobei sowohl das Unzerstörbare als auch das Vertrauen ihm dauernd verborgen bleiben können. Eine der Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten dieses Verborgen-Bleibens ist der Glaube an einen persönlichen Gott.
Quotes to Explore
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
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Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
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Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.
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Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.
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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
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What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.
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Der Mensch kann nicht leben ohne ein dauerndes Vertrauen zu etwas Unzerstörbarem in sich, wobei sowohl das Unzerstörbare als auch das Vertrauen ihm dauernd verborgen bleiben können. Eine der Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten dieses Verborgen-Bleibens ist der Glaube an einen persönlichen Gott.
