Franz Kafka Quotes
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
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The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.
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At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.
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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
