Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Quotes
One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.
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You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.
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One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
