Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.

Harry Dean Stanton

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• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• Nothing exists except through language.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Language
  • Nothing
  • Through

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Simple
  • Woman
  • Hands

• Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Football
  • Loved

• Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Action
  • Wealth

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Everybody
  • Clean

• Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Live
  • High
  • Food

• Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Sleep
  • Famous
  • Lose

• The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Country
  • Couple

• How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Amazing
  • Grace

• Patience! Hence-that word was madeFor brutes of burthen, not for birds of prey;Preach it to mortals of a dust like thine,-I am not of thine order.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Patience

• The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Different
  • Important
  • High

• …the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.

  

  Alvin Toffler
  • World
  • Religious

• I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Sports

• I'm not Madonna-famous and wouldn't want to be.

  

  Benji Hughes
  • Famous

• It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • America

• Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

  

  Rick Astley
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Army

• Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Good
  • Book
  • Game

• When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Real
  • Girl
  • Reading

• Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Movies

• When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that.

  

  Alex Garland
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility