Franz Kafka Quotes

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Father
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Kids
  • Dance
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• The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • History
  • Help

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Together
  • Heroic
  • Epic

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Sex
  • Dying
  • Generation

• I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Children
  • High
  • Education

• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Heart
  • Dreams
  • Texas

• In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Time Passes

• Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
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• For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • Story
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• Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Attractive
  • Toxic

• Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Industry
  • Reach
  • Capability

• Angel away yeah strange in a way Maybe that is why I chase strangers away

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Why
  • Way
  • Hurt

• A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• I always wanted to live the lives of different people, portray characters that are different from me. But I could have done that in front of a mirror, also, I didn't need to do films for that. At the end of the day, it's this fame, recognition, popularity, the love and appreciation you get from your audience that drives you.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • Audience
  • Characters

• Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
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• Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

  

  Socrates
  • Knowledge
  • Wealth
  • Prefer

• I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

  

  Franz Kafka
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