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.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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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.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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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.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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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.
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There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
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I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.
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If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.
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Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.
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A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
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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.
