Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.
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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn't all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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One of the peculiar features of history is that time always erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later leads to a counter-invention.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
