Harold Perrineau Quotes
I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.
Quotes to Explore
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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I believe that, as actors, we have a phenomenal platform to spread positivity and influence people in the same way.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.
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I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.
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I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'
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As long as I'm able to actually maintain a career where I can write full-time, I'll be thrilled.
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If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.
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I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European culture, one does not judge his parents. Now, I have expressed my disagreements with my father on certain points, disagreements related to the way one should express things, something that has also to do with a difference of generations.
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I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.
