Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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I love working in New York.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.
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I am actually a very unspeaking person. I'm not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don't know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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'Welcome to the GWOJ.' 'GWOJ?' 'Global War on Jones.'
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Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.
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Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
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People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.
