Doug Stanhope Quotes
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
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I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.
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I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.
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But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
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The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
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I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.
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At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
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My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.
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I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.
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From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.
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I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.
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You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.
