Franz Kafka Quotes
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
Nat King Cole
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
Ingrid Betancourt
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
Patrick Demarchelier
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
Isaac Hayes
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
Hale Irwin
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
Barbara Walters
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I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.
Victor Ortiz
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
Victor Hugo
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
Orson Scott Card
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Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
James Rollins
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
Dean Koontz
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Anarchy would be a world that nobody felt responsible for, that nobody felt any sort of love for. When there's real intelligence happening, when there's real love happening, there's a sense of responsibility: Hey, we've got to take care of this place and each other.
Ed Kowalczyk
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There is a great deal of pressure, in the one particular area at least, to prostitute our ideas, if not our integrity.
Joe Biden
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It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.
John Mackey
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The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.
William Godwin
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Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
Edward Levi
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka
