Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Quotes
There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.
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I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.
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Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.
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There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
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I love '90s grunge and punk.
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Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge.
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I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.
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I think the rule should be that if we're going to take actions overseas that result in the deaths of people, the United States should take responsibility for that.
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First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' began what would be one of the icons of my grunge-stained disenchanted childhood.
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Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
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The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
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At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.
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I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.
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Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.
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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
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It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!
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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
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In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
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You have to think about the WWE as soap operas.
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You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.
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I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
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There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.
