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

• What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Serious

• Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can,Come saddle your horses, and call up your men;Come open the West Port, and let me gang free,And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Up
  • Men
  • Free

• When I left the San Francisco DA's office, I went down to the Los Angeles district attorney's office, and I was able to try a tremendous amount - very serious cases and working in gang neighborhoods, impoverished neighborhoods - really make a difference and be impactful in those communities.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Serious
  • Gang

• I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If I don't capture my former brother-in-arms, great harm will befall my family.

  

  John Marston
  • People
  • Family
  • Brother

• If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Habit
  • Gang
  • Council

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

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Gang