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'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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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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The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.
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Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.
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Love is stronger than violence.
