Franz Kafka Quotes
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
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Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman.
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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
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I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.
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Adding a column of figures is a repetitive thought process, and it was long ago properly relegated to the machine. True, the machine is sometimes controlled by the keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.
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A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.
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The only thing I don't have is hips.
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When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.'
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When you do something well, this is the best job in the world.
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I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
