Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam Shepard and singers like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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I'm very ditsy and a klutz. I've been known to walk on stage and fall over my dress.
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I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.
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I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
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I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
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You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body.
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That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.
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Observation capitalizes inspiration.
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Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
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I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.
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I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam Shepard and singers like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
