Harmony Korine Quotes
I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.
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I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.
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How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
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Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
