Ethan Hawke Quotes

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

Ethan Hawke

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• Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
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  • Heart
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• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
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• I love being in a courtroom.

  

  Kamala Harris
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• I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
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• We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Always
  • Boundaries
  • Push

• We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • She
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• I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Enjoy
  • Actors
  • Working

• I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Good
  • Think
  • Perfect

• Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.

  

  Randy Pausch

• Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
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• Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people and drink. Jump behind the wheel like it was still legal!

  

  Eminem
  • People
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• If ever two were one, then surely we.If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;If ever wife was happy in a man,Compare with me ye women if you can.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Women
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• Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.

  

  Edward Snowden
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  • Christmas

• Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Community

• I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• I had a very rainbow-colored childhood.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Childhood
  • Rainbow

• Jesus meets the physical needs of kids but also tells them how to save their soul.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Kids
  • Soul
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• Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • People
  • American

• Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality...

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
  • Age
  • Struggle
  • Parent

• I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Struggle
  • Appealing
  • Famous People