Ethan Hawke Quotes

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

Ethan Hawke

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
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• 'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

  

  Zachary Knighton
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• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
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• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Character

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
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  • School

• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Health
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• A man really determines himself by what he does.

  

  Vin Scully
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• Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Think
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• Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Control
  • Forever
  • Now

• We've just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.

  

  Yoon Ahn
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• Constantly battling with sabretooth tigers and fluid drained lighters.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain

• This is not a dictadura dictatorship/hard rule but a dictablanda soft rule.

  

  Augusto Pinochet

• We always thought the living earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Earth
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• There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
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• Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
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• I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Freedom
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• Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Desire
  • Christianity

• Crunk Feminist Collective, I think, is a noble endeavor, and any group of young women coming together to uplift women, especially being run by women of color, I have no choice but to support that. But they're dead wrong on me.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Desire
  • Interested
  • Directing