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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

  Tammy Baldwin
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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
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• 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.

  

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• Constantly battling with sabretooth tigers and fluid drained lighters.

  

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• 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
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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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• Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

  

  Marie Curie
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• Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, at the Liberty Bell, I met a lot of Americans who do have the will. From arch-religious conservatives to young secular radicals, I just felt an incredible overpowering sense that this was possible. We're calling it the ONE campaign, to put an end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. They believe we can do it, so do I.

  

  Bono U2
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• I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

  

  Christine Sinclair
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• dear boss i relay this information without any fear that humanity will take warning and reform

  

  Don Marquis
  • Fear
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• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • You
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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