John Twelve Hawks (John Twelve Hawks) Quotes
These days, I live on the grid – primarily because of medical issues. But I think that it would be hypocritical for a writer to condemn our surveillance culture and then appear on the Charlie Rose show to blather about personal details. Focusing on a writer’s life undermines the power of that writer’s ideas.
Quotes to Explore
-
In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
-
What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
-
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
-
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
-
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
-
Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
-
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
-
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
-
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
-
I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
-
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
-
You can observe a lot by watching.
-
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
-
I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
-
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
-
I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
-
I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
-
A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
-
A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.
-
I meal prep when I'm traveling and make sure to have three solid, high-protein and low-carb meals a day with a few snacks in between. But I try not to be too hard on myself. At the end of the day, it's all about having a healthy balance.
-
A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.
-
But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.
-
These days, I live on the grid – primarily because of medical issues. But I think that it would be hypocritical for a writer to condemn our surveillance culture and then appear on the Charlie Rose show to blather about personal details. Focusing on a writer’s life undermines the power of that writer’s ideas.
