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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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 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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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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I can dance to Beyonce, sing karaoke, create strategy, go on dates, and build a multi-billion company and show the world that women can build big businesses.
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I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
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At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that teachers are unsung heroes.
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Most of my work has been in L.A. or booked in L.A. and shot on location.
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You'd think it would be easier for writers to make a living, but it's not. Fortunately, I love to teach.
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I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.
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Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.
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There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.
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Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust. We don’t lust after very many things in life. We don’t need words like ‘worklust’ or ‘homemakinglust.’ But travel? The essayist Anatole Broyard put it perfectly: ‘Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live… in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.’
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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.
