John Hawkes Quotes
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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I want to play interesting women.
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Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?
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A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be sacrificed. It is a heartless doctrine and has done harm to humanity.
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Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the department of trivia.
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I really love stories about women.
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I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.
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For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot of the time it's an American accent which can be quite trying, but I'm working on it as much as I can.
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It's hard to get concert tickets.
