Hermann Hesse Quotes
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
Quotes to Explore
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, I have never made a run for me. Records meant nothing. The team was important.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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Because the Pang brothers are twins, they would rotate days on set. One of them would be editing, and one of them would be shooting.
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What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
