Hermann Hesse Quotes
A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
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While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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But in cherishing all that is best in the land of your origin, and in desiring the highest welfare of the people of the old home, the question arises as to how that result can best be secured. I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores.
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I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
