Ethan Hawke Quotes
Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.
Quotes to Explore
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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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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One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
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When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
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I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! and the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.
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Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.
