John Hawkes Quotes

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

John Hawkes

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Game
  • Fear
  • Down

• Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Something
  • Policy
  • Become

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Why
  • Want
  • Fear

• One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fear

• I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Movie
  • Loved
  • Really

• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Home
  • Fear
  • Action

• I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Want
  • Fall
  • Complacency

• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Family
  • Best
  • Sense

• I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Rules

• Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Me
  • Government
  • Purpose

• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Art
  • Fear

• Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Birth

• With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Small

• To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Fear
  • Better
  • Overcome

• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Slave

• I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.

  

  David Ebershoff
  • Art
  • History

• You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close to him. But after six years he feels the urge to get in the studio with musicans he likes. He closely follows bands like Arcade Fire in recent months. But he is inspired by ancient Chinese folk and jazz these days as well.

  

  Gail Ann Dorsey
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Chinese

• Ground operations are inherently very risky in Yemen. The two previous JSOC raids in Yemen were both in 2014.

  

  Peter Bergen

• This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Change
  • Model
  • Development

• We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Body
  • Contradiction
  • Fleshless

• My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Fear
  • Authenticity
  • Complacency