Hermann Hesse Quotes
One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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It's pretty hard when you are Caesar and everyone is saying how wonderful you are and they are giving you all the goodies and the girls, it's pretty hard to break out of that, to say 'Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.'
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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Experience is the basis of poetry.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.
