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.
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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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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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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.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
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Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.
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I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. 'Lord, send me!'
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
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Colorado's majestic landscapes are one of our most valuable assets, and it's important that we work to preserve these treasures.
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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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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.