Hermann Hesse Quotes
... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.
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I have always been a fan of Kajol Ma'am. The way she portrayed Zooni's character in 'Fanaa' is etched in my memory. I have watched the film several times, and each time I have learnt something new from her performance.
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Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.
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It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
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I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.
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I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
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Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
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I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.
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People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.
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Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
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If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.
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As the governor of the state of Arizona, I took an oath to uphold the laws and to protect the people of Arizona. And I'm going to be relentless in it. I'm going to do what is right.
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I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
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I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.
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I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.
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The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.
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The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
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... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'
