Hermann Hesse Quotes
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.
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I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
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Michael Jackson was one of popular culture's greatest artists. Nobody danced better. Few sang more compellingly. No one understood more about stage spectacles or music videos. He was an innovator. His reach was global.
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I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.
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It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
