Corey Hawkins Quotes

The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton.

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• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Money
  • Me

• I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Like
  • Old
  • Disney

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Poetry
  • Actor
  • Writer

• It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Power
  • Giving

• Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Mean
  • Evil
  • Same

• What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • August

• We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later-it might; it does!-but because it’s obnoxious now.

  

  Adam Gopnik

• The relevant poems are Milton's Paradise Lost, Pope's Essay on Man, Wordsworth's Excursion, Tennyson's In Memoriam.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Lost
  • Paradise

• I think a dream can take you farther than anything.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Dream

• How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Pain
  • Grief

• To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Work
  • Death
  • Present

• Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Dream

• As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Work
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• The reports of my death have been greatly understated.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Death

• I tend to root for characters who have a lot of negative qualities, but what's driving them forward is their passion. They're on a mission, and maybe their approach is misguided, but you can't fault them for giving 150%.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Giving
  • Passion
  • Driving

• Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Men
  • History
  • Planning

• Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only to mark distance. That's how we ended up calling ourselves Satanists, despite the fact that we absolutely were not. There was not a single Satanist in the whole Black Metal scene in Norway in 1991-92.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Black
  • Distance
  • Scene

• I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Support

• I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Gang

• The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• Great influencers attract others.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Attract
  • Influencers

• The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Gang