John Twelve Hawks (John Twelve Hawks) Quotes
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
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Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.
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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.
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In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care.
