Franz Kafka Quotes
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.
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Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
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I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.
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DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
