Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

Paris, Texas gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.

Harry Dean Stanton

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• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • School
  • Reading
  • Year

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Good
  • Chance
  • Try

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Chance
  • Color
  • Performance

• If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Want
  • New York
  • Paris

• I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fear
  • Chance
  • Same

• Compassion is not a popular virtue.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Popular
  • Compassion
  • Virtue

• Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Chance

• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Space

• I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Art

• There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Different
  • Paris
  • Shopping

• Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Chance
  • Acting
  • Skating

• When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Couple

• We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. The politicians in charge of Texas now clearly don't. Perry has refused to even consider expanding health care coverage in Texas because he cares more about scoring political points than he does about our Texas families.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Political

• One of women's greatest values is compassion.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Women
  • Compassion
  • Values

• It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Texas

• I never planned to be a model at all. I moved to Paris to study art, and I was there working as an artist, taking classes, and I had a little sick dog that I was using up all of my money to try and heal. It was right at that point that this photographer, Errol Sawyer, saw me at the phoning office and convinced me to let him take my photo.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Up
  • Money
  • Art

• There are no nail salons in Paris - it is very expensive to do a manicure. I sometimes get one done.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Done
  • Paris

• I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Fly
  • Paris

• la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • God
  • Prophet
  • Hussein

• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Struggle
  • Strength
  • Where

• My stance has always been that my issue compared to everything else going on in the world is really, really small. Once you realize that, you can get a lot more out of being a part of the solution.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Small
  • Solution

• The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Top
  • Success Is

• Paris, Texas gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Chance
  • Compassion
  • Paris