Franz Kafka Quotes
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Quotes to Explore
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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I love New York. Love it.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.
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When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
