Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
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We can only have true public safety with public trust.
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I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.
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I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
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Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
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If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.
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The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
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Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.
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The one thing I've learned exploring the deep is that you just can't even begin to imagine some of the bizarre creatures that are down there.
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I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
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In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood.
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What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.'
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What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
