Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
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I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
