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.

Maynard James Keenan

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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.

  

  Questlove
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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!

  

  Odette Annable
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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?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
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• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Actions
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• We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
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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?

  

  Karen Duffy
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• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
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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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
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• We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.

  

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• As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

  

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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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• Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.

  

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• 'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

  

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• Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.

  

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• Without social media, I wouldn't have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I'd be on it if it wasn't part of my job.

  

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  • Job
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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.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • School
  • Art
  • Military