Franz Kafka Quotes
All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.
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There's a place in my heart for every team I played on.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
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As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
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You have to be in the right place at the right time and understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
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So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, 'Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!'
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
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I feel lucky because earlier in my career, I found what I liked to do; it's build software that you see your friends using on the street, and they like it.
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.
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The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth.
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All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.
