Hermann Hesse Quotes
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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My life is not perfect.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.
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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.
