Harmony Korine Quotes
Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.
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One of the things you will notice about the book of Mark is that if you read through it in one setting, you will be breathing hard at the end. Literally, Mark has set up this book in a way that it is almost like several snapshots of Jesus Christ.
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I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.
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Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.
