Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
I've got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed.
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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So you went looking for a myth and found a man.
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I'm ducked the fuck down while I'm writin this rhyme, cause I'm probably gonna get struck with lightning this time.
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Some people think of feminine as just being pretty and quiet and sweet, but I also think being feminine is being angry and also being sexy and aggressive and passionate.
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We have got to lose the primary in order to win the general.
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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.
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When you jerk off, you’re saying 'Hey, I care about me.'
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I've got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed.
