Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
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I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.
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But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
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Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone.
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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
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I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.
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Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
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Even if you wanted to be a hermit, people come out looking for you. I don't want to cloister myself away, but it is important for me to write about issues that have universal significance. One of them that have resonated with me all my life has been the theme of injustice.
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive. It's really hard to do a literary reproduction of what makes you happy. That's what I try to do. If nothing else, it seems like there's enough people out there telling the world what isn't cool, or what's terrible, or what's depressing. I think there's an element of cynicism in my writing, but I'm an optimistic cynic.
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There's a huge pressure as a judge. It was difficult. I certainly didn't enjoy that factor, because it's a big responsibility to have a million dollars in your hand to change somebody's life.
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Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements resulting from the WPA which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor.
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Los Angeles residents are going to vote on a tax on anything sold in a medical marijuana dispensary. If the measure passes the city could be solvent within 45 minutes.
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August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
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Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
