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 post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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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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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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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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THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me
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The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.
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If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.
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One of the things I always tell people is that when it comes to fighting and fight week, then I'm there for one purpose, and that's to fight and get the hell out of dodge.
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If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.
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Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.
