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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'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'
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Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.
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The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
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Coming to New York to go to school and being very far away from my own family, I definitely found myself piecing together my sort of chosen family here, and I have friends that I'm still very close with, that we all met at the same time and have become a huge part of each other's lives.
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What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.
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Love is stronger than violence.
