Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.
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Slander was about liberals’ methods, Treason was about the political consequences of liberalism, and Godless is about the underlying mental disease that creates liberalism.
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Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
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Obviously I don't really go to church any more - no time.
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We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.
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Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.
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I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.
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Just because people are older, they don't have the right to tell you what's right and wrong.
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I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.
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I tend to pack light but still keep a large bag because I love to shop. For each destination I travel to, I like to buy something that the country or city is known for such as olive oil, truffle, jewelry, etc. I also like to buy perfumes because the smell brings me back to the memory of my travels.
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If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.
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No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
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In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.
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I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.
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天际秋云薄，从西万里风。今朝好晴景，久雨不妨农。塞柳行疏翠，山梨结小红。胡笳楼上发，一雁入高空。
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Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
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Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.
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There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%.
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People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.
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The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.
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I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?
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I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.
