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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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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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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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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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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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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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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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
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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.
