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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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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Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.
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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
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The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.
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Men are more mechanical when we cook. Women are more attached. They cook it with feelings. From personal experience. The feeling a female chef puts in the food places her way ahead of men chefs.
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I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.
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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.
