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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It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.
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It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.
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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.
