Hermann Hesse Quotes
When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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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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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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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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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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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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Signing up for 'It Follows,' I didn't have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.
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... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
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It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.
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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
