Ethan Hawke Quotes
In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder.
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in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
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In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.
