Franz Kafka Quotes
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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Everybody grows but me.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.
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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
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The hardest things in the world are being unique and having your life be a story. In the old days, it was much easier, but our modern fame-driven culture, with its real-time 24-7 marinade of electronic information, demands a lot from modern citizens, and poses great obstacles to narrative.
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
