John Kessel Quotes
Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I think I can change the game.
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I love India.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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I am a contrarian.
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I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.
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'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.
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I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she's a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.
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Half of life-the interesting half of life-we don't even have a name for.
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N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.
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If I couldn't do it my way, I'd best stay at home.
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Don't take any shit from anybody!
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Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.
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You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.
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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
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Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.
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When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.
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Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.
