John Hawkes Quotes
I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.
John Hawkes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
Lady Gaga
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
Tamron Hall
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
Ted Danson
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Accept loss forever.
Jack Kerouac
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
Dane DeHaan
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
Queen Latifah
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
Page McConnell
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
Narendra Modi
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
Cam Gigandet
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
Mara Wilson
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Edgar Winter
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
Octavia E. Butler
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
Hans Rosling
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
Karl Marlantes
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
Yuna
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
Felicity Huffman
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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
Philip K. Dick
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Before the singularity, human beings living on Earth had looked at the stars and consoled themselves in their isolation with the comforting belief that the universe didn’t care.Unfortunately, they were mistaken.
Charles Stross
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
Frances Bean Cobain
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I think we should all have a private audience with Helen Mirren.
Claire Foy
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Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
Kay Redfield Jamison
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I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.
John Hawkes
