John Twelve Hawks (John Twelve Hawks) Quotes
Our sense of powerlessness-the belief that an ordinary person does not matter-has twisted our lips into a sneer.
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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.
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It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'
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I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
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We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.
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Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
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I would never be fearful of any character.
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I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
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You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment and make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race.
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A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.
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I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.
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When we're on Twitter, we're not only live tweeting episodes and talking about behind-the-scenes stuff, we actively try to respond to everybody.
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I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.
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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
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Our sense of powerlessness-the belief that an ordinary person does not matter-has twisted our lips into a sneer.
