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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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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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.
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I just really love being in my pajamas.
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Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
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I think Tesla doesn't sound like it has a very collaborative culture.
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You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.
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I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it’s like, “Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let’s sit in the hair chair together!” We’re lonely, women.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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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.
