Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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Dream and you shall become.
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The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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We can climb mountains with self-love.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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It culture invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.
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If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
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As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.
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He was still wide awake when the morning came - the light changed imperceptibly underground, with the glowtrees flaring up brightly, and the shimmer of golden dust that remained suspended in the musty air, as if millions of butterflies had shed the scales of their wings in midair.
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Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
