John C. Hawkes Quotes
Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?
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After my first video, I went out and had chicken noodle soup with my sister and manager. We were like, 'How rock n' roll are we? Celebrating the first video with chicken soup.'
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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
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Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
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I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river, and by this sea which is fresh.
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If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.
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When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
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At the end, I have to take the court I get scheduled on.
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I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with my family.
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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
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He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.
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My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.
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I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!
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Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
