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Franz Kafka Quotes

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
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Birth: July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924

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Parents Slavery Tyranny Born Two

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Music Romantic Trying Find Jazz Way

Sometimes you win by losing.

Losing Win You Sometimes

When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come up to me and talk to me about articles she had written. 'That one on getting a Brazilian was hilarious', some guy said, high-fiving me.

Girl School People Me Sometimes She

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

Mathematics School Gift Think Better

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

Experience Quality Intellectual Prior

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

Yourself Fun Enjoy You Play Serious

I like watching a lot of reality television.

Stephanie Savage

Reality Television Watching Like Lot

Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.

Debate Would Barack Obama Cream Newt

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.

Sympathy Think You Kind Mean Always

It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

Hate Me America Goal Others More

As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.

Love Service School Child Christian

I did the coffee house thing - we have coffee houses where people play, or we used to - and when I was 14, I started there. Just played all the time. Every weekend I had a show, or every Thursday. Open-mic nights, the whole thing.

Time Coffee People Weekend House

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