Hermann Hesse Quotes
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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A lot of reporters don't have conversations - they just fire off questions. I'm going to listen to what you're saying. If you start giving me a pat answer, I'm going to challenge you. That's where my sports background helps, because athletes do it all the time. So you have to stop them... and sometimes they're going to yell back at you. So what?
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one’s insanities.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
