Hermann Hesse Quotes
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation.
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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I did country way back when I was, like, 13-14 years old, and then I kind of fell into the pop genre.
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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
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One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
