Hermann Hesse Quotes
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Think and grow rich.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.
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Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.
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Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.
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It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.
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I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.
