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The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages. -- Brendan Sexton III
People would say I really loved Buck Rogers until the Hawk guy came on. -- Gil Gerard
When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest thing in the world - far from it. But I thought the script at least raised some very important questions that are missing from the final product. -- Brendan Sexton III
I've definitely had my share of calls where I just laugh. Someone came to me once and wanted to do a signature Hawk cologne. I was like, 'Of what? Sweaty pads? Am I wringing out my pads into a little perfume bottle?' -- Tony Hawk
Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies -- Daniel Handler
The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages. -- Brendan Sexton III
Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well? -- Kenneth Rexroth
On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims. -- Ridley Scott
I bleed and breathe Hawks. Even when I played for other teams I felt funny, because I was a Hawk. -- Dominique Wilkins
I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans. -- Jim Courier
I once punched a bloke in the face for saying 'Hawk the Slayer' was rubbish, when what I should have said 'Dad, you're wrong.' -- Bill Bailey
In that you're wrong. I choose, I adhere, I pursue, I commit, I attain. That - that, my errant friend - is an absolute." - Hawk -- Karen Marie Moning
I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong. -- Ogden Nash
If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk. -- Larry Walters
I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk]. -- Jim Thorpe
I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest." I know they're trying to be clever, but they're not. -- Andre Naffis-Sahely
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room. -- Maureen Corrigan
I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience. -- Gil Gerard
It used to be cars had cool names: Dart, Hawk, Fury, Cougar, Firebird, Hornet, Mustang, Barracuda. Now we have Elantra, Altima, Acura, Lumina, Sentra, Corolla, Maxima, Tercel. Further proof that America has lost its edge. -- George Carlin
Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they were being exterminated and driven off their land, Whites were collecting assets. -- Ishmael Reed
I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it. -- Josh Hartnett
In America now every romantic comedy is interpreted politically. I can remember when I was promoting Black Hawk Down we were all being asked what it said about September 11th. Well, it was shot before that happened, so, nothing. -- Eric Bana
A wound that'd make an ordinary man unconscious, I won't lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I won't lose to it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I can't allow myself to be ordinary! -- Zoro
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve. -- Buzz Aldrin
In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, Malcolm MacPherson vividly brings to life this harrowing story of courage, pathos, and war at its grittiest. For military history buffs, or those interested in the front lines of the war on terror, Roberts Ridge is a must read. -- Jay Winik
When I started 'Hudson Hawk,' I realized I was dealing with a strong-willed producer, a strong-willed actor, and, at times, a strong-willed studio, and I was the junior partner in all of this - the guy who hadn't proven anything in terms of box-office success. -- Michael Lehmann
What the creeping crud is that?" [Percy] demanded. "You're inside a giant glowing chicken-man!" "Hawk!" I yelled. I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They'd probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity. -- Rick Riordan
[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it. -- Black Hawk
I am a deficit hawk. -- Dick Cheney
Watch your finances like a hawk. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive. -- Pete Hegseth
Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk. -- Megyn Kelly
Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena. -- John Burnside
Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art. -- Arne Glimcher
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.' -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk. -- Sebastian Coe
If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard. -- Zac Efron
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. -- Ernest Hemingway
Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk? -- Karl Rove
The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility. -- Rachel Maddow
And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle. -- Shirley Manson
There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk! -- Lady Gregory
We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did. -- George P. Shultz
And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore. -- Julianna Baggott
The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go 'off the reservation, into Indian Country.' -- Winona LaDuke
I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in. -- Geraldine Brooks
I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror. -- Neill Blomkamp
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free? -- Nathan Myhrvold
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it. -- Buddy Hackett
I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.' -- Stephen Hunter
Black hawk down.Black eagle up. -- Cass van Krah
My wife watches me like a hawk. -- Carl Icahn
But who does hawk at eagles with a dove? -- George Herbert
The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak. -- Edward Abbey
No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk. -- Idries Shah
We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle. -- Ovid
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. -- Ovid
When you're a ball hawk, you should have a mohawk. -- Rahim Moore
Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk. -- Bob Beauprez
We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk. -- Millicent Fenwick
The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind. -- R. S. Thomas
It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk. -- John McCain
I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck -- Alison Croggon
Cirrus sky hawk drift, blue haze in the autumn air, and my mouth is dry. -- Gregg Boddy
Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken. -- Michael Gruber
There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees. -- Louis MacNeice
No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike -- Shannon Hale
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. -- Horace
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. -- William Shakespeare
And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk. -- Leigh Bardugo
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You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it -- Edith Pattou
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. -- Roger Ascham
No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human. -- Jack Nicholson
I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad. -- Joe Jonas
There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove. -- Deacon Jones
...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth... -- John Geddes
You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth. -- John J. Geddes
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I think in places like Pennsylvania, there`s folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove. -- Chris Matthews
I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all. -- Kristin Cashore
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment. -- Horace
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress. -- Henry David Thoreau
One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry. -- Robinson Jeffers
When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing. -- Sun Tzu
The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea. -- Henry David Thoreau
We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof.... -- Takayuki Yamaguchi
You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them. -- Stephen King
We hear rumors of a man who leads a rebellion in the forest, determined to drive the invader out. It's said wherever wolf howls or hawk cries, he appears. -- Claire M. Banschbach
love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins -- Kurt Vonnegut
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? -- Alexander Pope
I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation. -- Vinod Khosla
No wolf falters before the bite, so strike.No hawk wavers before the dive, so swing.No sun pauses before the set, just strike.No rain delays before the fall, just swing. -- Shannon Hale
The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.] -- Ovid
The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old. -- Rudyard Kipling
The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love. -- Huey Lewis
Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk. -- Richard Koch
In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark -- Veronica Roth
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. -- William Shakespeare
If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a Pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk. -- Demetri Martin
I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. -- Herb Alpert

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