Hermann Hesse Quotes
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.Hermann Hesse
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar -
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Karen Armstrong -
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Karl Liebknecht
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
Jack Osbourne -
Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
Bat for Lashes -
I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
Jack Wagner -
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
Ira Glass -
In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
G. Willow Wilson -
Showbiz can be cruel.
Nadia Bjorlin
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
Aaron Staton -
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady -
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
Kate Chopin -
Nothing was made in Trinidad.
V. S. Naipaul -
When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
Randy Neugebauer -
I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.
Ville Valo HIM
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Cancer has touched my life and the lives of those I love, and now I'm ready to help all that I can in the fight.
Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony -
I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.
David Jeremiah -
I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
Karl Pilkington -
The move to hide aging is sort of sad. But it's a wonderful thing to celebrate our aging.
Jesse Ball -
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.
Hermann Hesse