Hermann Hesse Quotes
It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
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A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
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Be free always, because of all things, freedom is best, though it is not easily won and must be chosen by those who will enjoy it.
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It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.
