Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.
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I hope my kids can experience the seasons and a climate that's sustainable. The idea that things are going to be so very different for them is slightly scary.
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I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.
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I watch the Oscars in my pajamas like everybody else.
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I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.
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One has to get rid of his inhibitions, being an actor.
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I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.
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And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.
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I don't want to get pigeonholed.
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If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.
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My passion never fades out.
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Honestly, with stats and things like that, I try not to think about them. I just find that the more you think about goals and assists - what you need to do and accomplish - the more you tend to fall short. When you hope for something and you want something, it comes to you.
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The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real story, and these stories should be told. The problem is, if they're the only stories being told, then it makes Americans of African descent - it puts them into that victim category. And that was my problem with the movie.
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I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.
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In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.
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I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.
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I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.
