Corey Hawkins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
-
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
-
I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
-
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
-
Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.
-
I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
-
I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
-
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
-
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
-
God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.
-
One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
-
I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
-
I like heels and make-up.
-
I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
-
You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.
-
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
-
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
-
No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
-
The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.
-
Ted Geisel was trying to make a statement about awareness and personal responsibility. He was very clear about that. But the ideas and themes in 'The Lorax' go beyond a love of trees. It's also a story about the dangers of greed and the power of redemption. That's what makes it a timeless tale.
-
We really think, hopefully, all three of those guys will hit the ground running June 12 when we start our summer conditioning.
-
It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.
-
There's no wrong choice because, whatever you choose, that's meant for you.
