Hermann Hesse Quotes
One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
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In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
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Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.
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Like a lot of London, Richmond town centre had been laid out back when town planning was something that happened to other people.
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One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
