Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from the East Coast - a little bit of variance on the coast - I'm from Ohio, and I understand that.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.
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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
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I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
