John Twelve Hawks (John Twelve Hawks) Quotes

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• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Difficult

• Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.

  

  Yves Behar
  • World
  • Believe
  • Child

• We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Great
  • Change
  • Taken

• The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • History
  • Intelligent

• I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Things
  • Public
  • Radio

• Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Politics
  • Vote

• I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Strong

• Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Think
  • Own
  • Even

• I think Steve Jobs is my idol.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Idol

• When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Community
  • Justice
  • Empty

• It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of things that previously would never have gotten the kind of coverage that is happening.

  

  Karen Handel
  • People
  • Kind
  • News

• No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Air
  • Difficult
  • Marine

• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Mother

• It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Movie
  • Today
  • Doing

• You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children
  • Power

• In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Solitude

• I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Girl
  • Hate
  • Easter

• In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Life
  • City

• I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Sad

• Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica

• The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Mankind
  • Conflict

• The Grid exists even if you don't see the lines.

  

  John Twelve Hawks