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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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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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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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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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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I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
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Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.
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A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.
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Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.
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I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.
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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.
