Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.
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I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.
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It feels as if I never get my just due.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
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How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.
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If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead
