Franz Kafka Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
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I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
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The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
