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.

John Hawkes

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• I don't eat any red meat.

  

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

  

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• No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

  

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• He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

  

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• As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

  

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• The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

  

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• 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