Maynard James Keenan Quotes
It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.
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It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.
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Some of my toughest races are people I've known, because it gets more personal than it should be.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.
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It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.
