Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.
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When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William Shakespeare. The play I read on that journey was 'Titus Andronicus.'
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We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.
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My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.
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I have a great time touring.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
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When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.
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I don't think my parents know what I do.
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I think it's the whole impulse to judge and censor and euphemize, that is the enemy. … What fun, to feel superior to T. S. Eliot. And that's the impulse that I am suspicious of.
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By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.
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It's a situation where it's tough for Tom and tough for us, ... We think the world of him.
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Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
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I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
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I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
