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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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.
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In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.
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Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.
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Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
