Franz Kafka Quotes
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Quotes to Explore
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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I don't know anything about music.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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Necessity has no law.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.
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I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.
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I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let us find ourselves as we had, uniquely in our generation, through rock music.
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There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
