Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.

Harry Dean Stanton

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• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Art
  • Always
  • Blame

• I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Driving
  • Blame

• I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Blame

• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Up
  • Always
  • Blame

• When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Me
  • Blame
  • Insecure

• I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Death
  • Blame

• The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • People
  • Envy
  • Blame

• The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Jesus
  • Blame
  • Drive

• People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Blame
  • Enemies

• Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Blame

• The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Planning
  • Blame
  • Consequence

• God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • God
  • Heart
  • Art

• If I want to make the first move, I want to go after something in my life, I should be able to do that without shame, guilt, or blame.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Life
  • Blame
  • Guilt

• If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

  

  Epictetus
  • Control
  • Blame
  • Lament

• You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Home
  • Blame
  • Excellent

• The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Language
  • Blame

• There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Responsible
  • Blame
  • Salvation

• But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

  

  Emilia Lanier
  • Blame
  • Shame
  • Fault

• Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Writing
  • Want
  • You

• We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Action
  • Strive
  • Degrees

• My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they want. At the end of the day, you're still a human being, and I don't like being treated that way - I prefer to live a quiet life.

  

  Sean Maguire
  • Friends
  • Human
  • Still

• I don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Blame
  • External circumstances