Ethan Hawke Quotes

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

Ethan Hawke

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• If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Home
  • Language

• Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Challenge

• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style... I cook from the soul.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Soul
  • Style
  • Challenge

• I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Challenge

• I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Family
  • City

• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Thought

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Work
  • Challenge

• President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn English. Bush doesn't meet those qualifications.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Want
  • English
  • Learn

• The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Challenge

• No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Study
  • Language
  • Purposes

• The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • Society
  • Science
  • Challenge

• I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice - are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

  

  Al Gore
  • Power
  • Law
  • Decision

• The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • America
  • Future
  • Single

• I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.

  

  Blair Underwood
  • Business
  • Singing
  • Challenge

• The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being,

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Age
  • Present
  • Challenge

• And so we go.' It's my way of saying that I'm prepared for the next adventure. The next chapter. The next challenge. Whatever comes my way, I'm ready for it. Because that truly is the way it was meant to be.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Way
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.

  

  Ben Foster
  • People
  • Life
  • Dad

• When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Challenge
  • English
  • Language