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.Harry Dean Stanton
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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.
Idina Menzel -
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.
Lady Gaga -
Slander was about liberals’ methods, Treason was about the political consequences of liberalism, and Godless is about the underlying mental disease that creates liberalism.
Ann Coulter -
Obviously I don't really go to church any more - no time.
Kimbra Lee Johnson -
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.
Elvis Mitchell -
Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
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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.
Emma Watson -
Just because people are older, they don't have the right to tell you what's right and wrong.
Pratyusha Banerjee -
I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.
Clint Smith -
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.
Anthony Horowitz -
No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
Danielle Berry -
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.
Jim Broadbent
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I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.
Derek Walcott -
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。
Du Fu -
Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield -
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.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%.
Ben Bernanke
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We feel like our kids are winners. We know if we play our game, we'll win. If we're consistent, we'll win. If we don't, we'll lose. It's that simple.
Jay Harrington -
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler -
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
Mary Chapin Carpenter -
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.
Harry Dean Stanton