Ethan Hawke Quotes
It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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There's no business like show business.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it's not their cup of tea, it's not their kind of album, that's fine by me.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
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It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.
