Franz Kafka Quotes
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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There's no way that a third party wins without being in the presidential debates. I think the vast majority of Americans are Libertarian; they just don't know it.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
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That's the person I plan on being for a very long time: someone who stands up, someone who is an advocate for people, [even if it's for] something that some people think is only hair. I think it's more than just that. I want to be a spokesperson for self-love and for diversity.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
