Hermann Hesse Quotes
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
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By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.
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It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.
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What I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow.
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
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The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
