Franz Kafka Quotes
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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.
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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.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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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.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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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.
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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.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.
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I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.
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98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.
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Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
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I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some things I write in English, but my main way of conversing with my audience is in Spanish because, at the end of the day, I'm a Latino.
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You can't move mountains by whispering at them.
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I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.
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I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
