Ethan Hawke Quotes
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
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The energy of devils and angels is the same energy; it's how you use it. It's fuel. There is a saying: If you scare all your devils away, the angels will go away with them. You know, the halo and the horns are the same thing. I mean it's OK to be spiritually horny - that's what creative genius is all about. Geniuses don't have time to think about how it's going to be received... they don't have time to think whether people like it or not, is it morally right, will God like it?
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It's nice to do nice things, innit? I'm a nice person, deep down, I do nice things all the time.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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We may have created this projection of what God should be, as this judge or test, but the fact is, the only way we know about God is by knowing ourselves in some way. So God must be in ourselves-you can't deny that. If you say that God is somewhere else, which is what a lot of religions say, I just can't deal with it. I guess it's the difference between Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism, or something.
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We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
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It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.
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The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife.
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When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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We see that mice that undergo caloric restriction show a lower telomere shortening rate than those fed with a normal diet. These mice therefore have longer telomeres as adults, as well as lower rates of chromosome anomalies.
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It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.
