Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
Layne Thomas StaleyThe songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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For me, money is about respect, and that is really important to me.
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Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
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Layne Thomas StaleyThe songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!
