John Twelve Hawks (John Twelve Hawks) Quotes
The first icon of the 21st Century is the closed-circuit surveillance camera, slowly panning back and forth as we move beneath its gaze.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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And it's run for the rosesAs fast as you canYour fate is deliveredYour moment's at handIt's the chance of a lifetimeIn a lifetime of chanceAnd it's high time you joinedIn the danceIt's high time you joinedIn the dance.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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Go to work on an egg.
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Jochum had said, 'You keep asking the universe 'How ought I to live?' But it can't answer.'
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I think my music covers a broader sound than just 'Tropical House'... My goal is to simply be a great producer in my own right without being pigeonholed.
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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
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This is the right way. This is good because on a national team you can't have 12 star players. You need role players. Can't play with 12 star players. Too many want the ball, too many want to play.
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I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.
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The first icon of the 21st Century is the closed-circuit surveillance camera, slowly panning back and forth as we move beneath its gaze.
