O. S. Hawkins Quotes
Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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But I think we need the international market.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
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I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.
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Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.
