Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
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We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.
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I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the ignorant man) seems exceedingly hard, it may nevertheless be discovered. Needs must it be hard, since it is so seldom found.
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I am not an enemy of Adventism.
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I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.
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I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, they're people that you love to watch just be themselves. I like to be a little bit more in control. I like to make something.
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I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.
