Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
I had opportunities to be a lot more successful, but for some reason or other - the way I was particularly genetically wired - I turned down a lot of opportunities.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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I never had a long-term plan.
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I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
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A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.
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I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.
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I had opportunities to be a lot more successful, but for some reason or other - the way I was particularly genetically wired - I turned down a lot of opportunities.
