Hank Green Quotes
Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a member of a self-aware species living at the height of human technological progress.
Quotes to Explore
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
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It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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I know what winning and losing is when you gamble.
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I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.
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I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
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I think Mr. Trump's people are very, very passionate, and they're angry because of the way that this country has been taken advantage of from so many other countries. That's a frustration level I think a lot of people in this country feel, and people express it in different ways.
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Of course China, of course Mexico do not want Donald Trump. They know if he gets in and becomes President of the United States, the days of taking advantage of the United States are over.
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If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.
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Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.
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There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
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I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
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'They beat us, they beat us, they made us do their BLOW!
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It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.
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Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a member of a self-aware species living at the height of human technological progress.
