Hank Green Quotes
I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!
Quotes to Explore
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.
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Evolution and creationism both require faith.
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My kids learned to be independent.
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For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.
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I was not on social media for a really long time because I was afraid of being seen.
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.
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Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.
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People are getting famous now for serving food out of a truck, or for, well, pork buns. I don't know if I'm really pleased to be a part of that. I'm somewhat terrified of what the future holds, especially in America.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
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I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!
