Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Love is the one wild card.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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So as you are, in whatever conditions you are, in whatever situations you are, whatever may be the surroundings, like a dirty mire full of creatures and filth, you can become like lotuses. When you become like lotuses, all that is filth, all that is horrible can become fragrant. And this is what we have to achieve.
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The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.
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Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.
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When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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Love is stronger than violence.
