Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

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• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • High
  • Culture
  • Myself

• I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Business
  • History
  • Design

• Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • See

• Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Exclusive

• When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Theatre
  • Watch

• I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Think
  • Science
  • Interesting

• Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Men
  • Words
  • Play

• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Knowledge
  • Strength

• The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Culture
  • Growth

• Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Life

• Like some magistrate grown gray in office,Calmly he contemplates alike the justAnd unjust, with indifference he notesEvil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Good

• Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Game
  • Christian
  • Baseball

• For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Humanity
  • Greatness
  • Mysterious

• We've investigated Chattanooga as a terror attack from the beginning.

  

  James Comey
  • Beginning

• Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Work
  • Beginning

• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

  

  Brother Ali
  • People
  • Music
  • Strategies

• Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Man
  • Food
  • Meat

• It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Author
  • Rose

• You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • People
  • Conversation
  • Kernel of wisdom