Hermann Hesse Quotes
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
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When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.
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The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.
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It is easy to get sucked in. Because you’re watching these guys banging it consistently out of the park. And... you want a bit of that. It’s… I wouldn’t say ‘ego’, but you want to add to this score. I don’t want to be a restrictor. I don’t want to put a ceiling on what we’re capable of doing.
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
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Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
