Hermann Hesse Quotes
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I know about raising money.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.
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A shared history is valuable but maybe those two weren't right for each other and they know it.
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I'm a very egotistical person.
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The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
