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

• I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Failure

• 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

• It's easy to play the blame game, find a scapegoat, but no one person could be responsible for the challenges we face and the lives lost.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • Game
  • Challenges
  • Responsible

• The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Successful

• Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Economic

• To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

  

  George Cheyne
  • Heart
  • Cruelty
  • Feeding

• Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Smile
  • Excuses
  • Retreat

• 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