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.

Harry Dean Stanton

• Western
• Truthful
• Morality plays

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• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
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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.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Culture
  • Western
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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.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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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.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Truthful
  • Theatrical

• 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.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Men
  • Proud

• In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Alone
  • Integrity
  • Conscious

• 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.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Words

• You can't live a truthful life without regret.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Live
  • Regret
  • Truthful

• If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Trying
  • Western
  • Crafts

• Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Civilization
  • Doe
  • Morality

• 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.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Skins
  • Bottom
  • Western

• Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fearless
  • Truthful

• No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • History
  • Belief
  • Western

• He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Always
  • Truthful
  • Ambitions

• 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.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Love
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• Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Thinking
  • Scientist
  • Recognition

• 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.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • America
  • Film
  • Stories

• You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t always have to have the solution to the problem; sometimes it’s very interesting to watch somebody go through the process of solving the problem, but it’s got to be truthful.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Interesting
  • Problem
  • Sometimes

• It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

  

  Nicky Oppenheimer
  • Future
  • Resources
  • Africa

• Avocados are one of my weaknesses. Creamy but firm, even plain, they call margaritas, chips, and good times to mind. Fortunately, they are so nutritious that the fat content is pretty much canceled out.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Weaknesses
  • Good Times
  • Avocados

• I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Grandfather

• What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Western
  • Truthful
  • Morality plays