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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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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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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Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
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I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!
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People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"
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“I know I have plenty of enemies, but I’d rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.”
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There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.
