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

• A perfectly fitted sheath dress that can take you from day to night is something that every woman should have in her closet. You can't go wrong with black, but a little bit of color is nice. I love a lot of color, personally. You can accessorize a sheath dress. Look at how Michelle Obama accessorizes clothes to make them her own.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Night
  • Black
  • Nice

• To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Pride
  • Library
  • Apology

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Age

• 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