James Herbert Keenan (Maynard James Keenan) Quotes
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'
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In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.
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I think basically an actor is a salesman.
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I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain. In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
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What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.
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Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.
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This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.
