Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.
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You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.
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Be dignified, honest and truthful.
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Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that's where we are.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
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The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.
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You can't live a truthful life without regret.
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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
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The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.
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Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.
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No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
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He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful.
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I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.
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When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.
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Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.
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Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.
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The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.
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What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.
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I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after.
