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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To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of a science, and is indeed what we more especially term Science.
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.
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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
