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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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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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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Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
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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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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
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I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
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You're playing touch-butt with that dork in park, the pony tail.
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Beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water.
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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.
