Layne Thomas Staley Quotes

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

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• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Play
  • Actor

• I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Good
  • Game
  • Play

• The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Today
  • Team

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Family
  • Today

• You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Worth

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Diversity
  • Fantasy
  • Genre

• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

  

  Zell Miller
  • American
  • America
  • Today

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Drink

• There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • College
  • Play
  • Style

• It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Privilege

• Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Today
  • House
  • Alone

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Job
  • True

• There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Today
  • Party
  • Democratic

• Men like to provide for women and their families. It's in their DNA. I'm obviously no scientist, but I bet if you could hear a Y-chromosome talk, it would say, 'I want to provide and hunt.' When the woman is the primary breadwinner, it's going against nature. I'm not saying that it's bad or wrong, I'm just saying that it can feel off.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bad

• If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Women
  • Character
  • Strong

• I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

  

  Ken Thompson

• In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • Evil

• It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Today
  • Play
  • Intimacy