Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
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Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.
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I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
