Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, 'Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?' I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It's a refining agent.

Harry Dean Stanton

• People
• Music
• Singer
• Catalyst
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• North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • North Korea

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• Europe can be saved.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Saved

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Me
  • Myself

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Compliments

• I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Small
  • Imagination

• I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Good
  • Try
  • Moves

• Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Need
  • Take
  • Spine

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Quality
  • Strength
  • Paper

• That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Think
  • You
  • Painful

• Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Heart
  • May
  • House

• We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Think
  • Always
  • Matters

• A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

  

  Saadi
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Character
  • True

• When I grew up, my family, we sat down, all of us to watch 'Good Times,' 'Sanford and Son,' all those shows that were out at that time.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Time
  • Writing

• War was a catalog of madness.

  

  Christopher Paolini
  • War

• Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Culture
  • Beauty
  • Admire

• Can we begin again? Save it for another friend, I was happy in my life I won’t pretend.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Friend

• Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • Mysterious

• I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, 'Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?' I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It's a refining agent.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • People
  • Music
  • Singer