Harmony Korine Quotes

When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.

Harmony Korine

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• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
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  • Leader
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• I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

  

  Oksana Baiul
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• I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Children
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  • American

• It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
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• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
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  • Progress

• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Government
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• I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
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• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Yourself
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  • Others

• It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.

  

  Eddie Money
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  • Community

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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• The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
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  • While

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
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• Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

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• I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

  

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• As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
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• I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

  

  Eliot Paulina Sumner
  • Loved
  • Sexy
  • Languages

• Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.

  

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  • People
  • Honest
  • Usually

• The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • People
  • American
  • Worthy

• When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Skateboarding