Corey Hawkins Quotes

I knew I wanted to be an artist early on, but I decided to seriously pursue the profession when I auditioned for Juilliard.

Corey Hawkins

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Name

• I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Great
  • Said

• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Experience
  • Problems

• A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

  

  Washed Out
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • First

• Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Great
  • Think
  • Company

• I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Sing

• Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Software

• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Hate
  • Jealousy

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Think
  • Kid

• Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Freedom
  • First Amendment

• I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Great
  • Rock
  • Gangster

• In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

  

  Kate Bush
  • You
  • Feel
  • Mental

• We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Want
  • Government
  • Quality

• You breathe better when you're rich.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Breathe

• As for myself, I am simply Hop-Frog, the jester - and this is my last jest.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Advice

• Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don't apologize for it. They don't hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they're proud of it... announcing that they 'saved civilization,' or some such claptrap.

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Money
  • Proud
  • Civilization

• Being interviewed is an odd experience for me because I was an actor a long time before anyone ever asked me a question about myself. When I started being interviewed, I definitely felt I was being asked to defend or explain myself.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life', which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

  

  Frank Darabont
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Reason

• God created me. And the closest I will ever get with God is this soul, this body. And if I don't have myself, if I don't listen to myself, if I don't trust myself, then I don't trust God, because God created me.

  

  Haaz Sleiman
  • God
  • Soul
  • Trust

• I knew I wanted to be an artist early on, but I decided to seriously pursue the profession when I auditioned for Juilliard.

  

  Corey Hawkins