Hermann Hesse Quotes
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
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But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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You can get beat any day.
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Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
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I don't have to wear any other makeup as long as I have blush.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
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I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
