Andrew Hawkins Quotes

A lot of things create a distraction, and when you're on a quest as a football team you want to limit distractions. I'm very much on board with that because I am a football player, and things can be distracting. We have 53 people that we have to make sure aren't distracted, because we only have 16 turns to do it, so every one matters so much.

Andrew Hawkins

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• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Myself

• All I've done all my life is disobey.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Life
  • Done
  • My Life

• I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  

  Natalie Portman
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  • Hair
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• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Action
  • Never
  • Get

• I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

  

  Mako
  • Up
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• The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • People
  • Experience
  • Me

• Jon Hamm is such an amazing co-star. He used to set the tune of the scenes so easily, and in his free time, he didn't mind giving us cues. We picked up a lot from him.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Writer

• This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Dream
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• We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Planning
  • Ask
  • Tending

• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Religion
  • Trouble
  • Deprived

• He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Long
  • Enough
  • President

• The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

  

  William Golding
  • Book
  • Should
  • Forget

• Wear your smile today. It looks so good on you.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Good
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• In this whole digital age, where everything is so exposed, rather than trying to keep something private, you try to get out ahead of the curve and limit the amount of gossip.

  

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  • Limit
  • Private

• The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Real
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  • Distraction

• The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • War
  • Father
  • Firsts

• A lot of things create a distraction, and when you're on a quest as a football team you want to limit distractions. I'm very much on board with that because I am a football player, and things can be distracting. We have 53 people that we have to make sure aren't distracted, because we only have 16 turns to do it, so every one matters so much.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • Limit
  • Distraction
  • Football Player