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John C. Hawkes Quotes

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 17, 1925 - May 15, 1998

Topics

Imagination Way Fiction Voices Only

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

Government Process Wealth Important

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Angela Ruggiero

Life Love Hockey Think Grow My Life

I've been doing my record label for 15 years called Dim Mak. I started my label when I was 19 in '96. I started putting out an eclectic roster of artists. In 2003, we found a band called Bloc Party, and in 2004, we started getting remixes for Bloc Party, and at the same time I was throwing Dim Mak parties in Los Angeles.

Time Doing Party Los Angeles Band

Personally, I'm not into 'Star Trek' or physics or comic books, but I know I might be in the minority.

Physics Know Minority Star Books

As Republicans try to trample on our most sacred freedoms, Democrats will do everything we can to end discrimination and protect the one right that preserves all others - the right to vote.

End Discrimination Vote Try Protect

I'm really influenced by '90s hip hop. A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul were my heroes growing up.

Soul Growing Up Growing Heroes Tribe

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

Kindness People Generosity Thinking

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.

Time Say Awards They Say Charm Host

President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.

Broken Opinion Financial Better Back

I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.

You Know Want Talk Band Mean

There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.

Clayton M. Christensen

Money Quality Internet Trying You

I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.

Music Eyes Art People Think Someone

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