Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.
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It's about not accepting every little challange thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
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I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about ... It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent.
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Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.
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People kept asking me, 'When are you singing again?' so I kept doing it. It was that simple.
