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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Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
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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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I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
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Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
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We have a tendency to be in our heads’ … Dancing is about letting go of the mind [and] the ego and finding the power of the body.
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Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.
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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.
