Franz Kafka Quotes
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
