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 have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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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 was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
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Just as sports teams recognize the potentially game-changing benefit of calling time-outs, failing to do so in matters of warfare is a surefire way to continue losing.
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If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.
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People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.
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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.
