Maynard James Keenan Quotes
Tool is not Slayer. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
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We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.
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Tool is not Slayer. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns.
