Hermann Hesse Quotes
Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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The facts are on our side.
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The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
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The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.
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Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.
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Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.
