Ethan Hawke Quotes

The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.

Ethan Hawke

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• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Question
  • Tennis
  • Lose

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Model
  • Margins
  • Shipping

• I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Crazy
  • Got
  • Belt

• On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • You
  • Find
  • System

• The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Leader
  • Individual

• I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Pretty
  • Sick
  • Integrity

• I never quit hustling.

  

  Bobby Riggs

• Being a Witness was too closed an experience. That's what I walked away from, not the things I believe.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Believe
  • Experience

• I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.

  

  Chris D'Elia
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Mind

• An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.

  

  Jed S. Rakoff
  • Power
  • Purpose
  • Rest

• Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

  

  Chip Conley
  • Money
  • Business
  • Political

• Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

  

  Jo Brand
  • People
  • Trying
  • Respect

• I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Work

• There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Pain

• Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Family
  • Done

• The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Opportunities
  • London

• 'Leroy Anderson is an American original - direct, honest, personal, idiosyncratic, and free of pretension. His music is directed to, and reflective of, the American soul.'

  

  John Williams
  • Music
  • American
  • Soul

• What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Minds
  • Orchestra
  • Bookies

• They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Terrible
  • Performing
  • Hated

• The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Life
  • Control
  • Wave