Tom Araya Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
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Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
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If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.
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Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?
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No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.
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Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.
