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I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#agent #around #as far as #because #being

I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#devastated #feel #find #horrified #i

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#compete #corporate #funny #go #irrelevant

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#assume #becoming #been #better #efficient

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#back #being #causing #collapsing #destructive

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#being #capital #companies #concentrated #corporations

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#change #coherent #either #forces #future

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#enormous #fish #frightening #just #like

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#good #how #i #immediately #knew

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#greater #i #know #nothing #something