Ethan Hawke Quotes
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
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I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.
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I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when you can let the young boys shine?
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You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.
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Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners are very much looked down on and there is a real conflict between the locals and the Bennies - people that are out of towners, not from the shore. That's slang going back in the day.
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If you're passionate about something, you believe in it, then you have to be consistent. And you have to put in the hard work that it takes to be successful.
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.
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Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.
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On the individualist approach, society is not something above the individual to which he owes a duty - it is merely a group of individuals, each with his own dreams, goals and purposes.
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There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.
