John Twelve Hawks (John Twelve Hawks) Quotes
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
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I am an inventor of music.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
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要使文艺很好地成为整个革命机器的一个组成部分，作为团结人民、教育人民、打击敌人、消灭敌人的有力的武器，帮助人民同心同德地和敌人作斗争。
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The life that I aspire to liveNo man proposeth me-No trade upon the streetWears its emblazonry.
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I think when someone knows who they are and is comfortable and confident with that, I think a lot of the typical, aesthetic things sort of fall by the wayside.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
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There is no abiding success without commitment.
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I just want to stay professional.
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The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.
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True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.
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A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.
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You don't need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're being watched.
