Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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I watch a lot of football.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
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The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
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Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.
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Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon the gods, is now being assumed by man. The ideal of this modern drift is the realization of the full joy in living.
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We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
