Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
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'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.
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That's not the same thing as saying that the latest account that he gives should be unmistakably taken as the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I wouldn't say he never wanted to be followed or be called a leader. (But) he probably wanted it less than it seemed at the time.
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If you see 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson, you remember him not only because he is Jack Nicholson and because he does a wonderful job, but because he is a threat. The bad guy is someone people will have in their minds forever if it's a good bad guy.
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In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
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Merdre!
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I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.
