Ethan Hawke Quotes
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.
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Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.
