Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.
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Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.
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Brad [Pitt] and I have never wanted our kids to be actors. We've never talked about it. But, we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy's life, and for it not to be kept from it either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.
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We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
