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.
Quotes to Explore
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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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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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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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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In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
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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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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
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Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.
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The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.
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Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
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Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
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I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.
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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.
