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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Sometimes they seem like living shapes, - The people of the sky, - Guests in white raiment coming down From heaven, which is close by; I call them by familiar names, As one by one draws nigh.
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Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.
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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 poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
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Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.
