Maynard James Keenan Quotes

You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

Maynard James Keenan

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• Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

  

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• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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  • Believe
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• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
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• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

  

  Safra A. Catz
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• No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

  

  Vince Flynn
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• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
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• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
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• Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?

  

  Paris Hilton
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• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
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• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
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• I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

  

  Osman Rashid
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• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
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• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • God
  • Me
  • Son

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
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• When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

  

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• I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don't really have the patience for it, and they don't stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.

  

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  • Music
  • Together

• The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  

  Dan Lipinski
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  • Energy

• If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Imagination

• The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

  

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• You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • Music
  • Power
  • Listening