Ethan Hawke Quotes
The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
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It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.
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It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
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The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
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Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.
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I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.
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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
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I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.
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It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.
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My fans and followers are so amazing.
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O my America! my new-found land.
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The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
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As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.
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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
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My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the minds of millions. My job as a director has produced masterpieces that will be taught in film school for ages.
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The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.
