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.
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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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Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
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As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.
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She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.
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One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
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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.
