Franz Kafka Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.
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My idea of teaching literature is just to read great passages aloud or to look at it the way a writer does, which is what I try to do. Which is to say, 'How does this writer do this? How did he order his scenes? Do you notice any pattern to his sentences?'
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While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of government. Our nation's long-term debt requires us to prioritize and economize with every tax dollar.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
