Ethan Hawke Quotes

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

Ethan Hawke

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• I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
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  • Love
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• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

  Saadi
  • Great
  • Together
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• I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Going
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• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
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• People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
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• I was rubbish at school.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Rubbish

• I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Diet
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• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Suffering
  • Things
  • Silent

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Because
  • Price
  • Oil

• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Simple
  • Thoughts
  • Eye

• I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Country
  • Rock
  • Deep

• I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
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• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humor
  • Laughter
  • Days

• It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.

  

  Bertie Carvel
  • Experience
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  • Help

• In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • Dictatorship

• When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Father
  • Want
  • Problem

• I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Time
  • Father

• I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Truth
  • Profound
  • Apology

• I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Father
  • I Think
  • Achieved