Hermann Hesse Quotes
It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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My family is my strength and my weakness.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.
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It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.
