John Hawkes Quotes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

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• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Stand
  • Treat

• Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Parents
  • More
  • Shine

• Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Always
  • Talent

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Movie

• The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Emotional
  • Enough

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Rejection
  • Street
  • Editors

• I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • You
  • Appreciate

• Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Nature
  • Mistakes
  • Goalkeeper

• I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.

  

  George Packer
  • Father
  • Rest
  • Connection

• The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Parents
  • Will
  • Utterly

• I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Family
  • Parents

• To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Song
  • Voice
  • Bird

• I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Life
  • Dark