Hermann Hesse Quotes

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

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• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

  

  Natalie Zea
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• I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.

  

  Adam Beach
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• You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
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• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• To lead people walk behind them.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.

  

  Randy Owen
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• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

  

  Waris Dirie
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• It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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• I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• When you are committed to living a life in service to the most high, the choices to be great, to serve and be served, to love and be loved are apparent.

  

  Debbie Ford
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• All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

  

  Adam Jones
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• I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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• There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

  

  Hermann Hesse
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