Ethan Hawke Quotes
Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.
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All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
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I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.
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Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.
