James Herbert Keenan (Maynard James Keenan) Quotes
Scramble to reach higher ground. Order and sanity, something to comfort me.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
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Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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With each new day, I'm learning how to take control in order to have balance in my life. I plan time for myself and my loved ones and take it.
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This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.
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She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
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People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.
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Fortunately, I was given an incredible foundation from my independent mother. She showed me what was possible from a strong, loving woman.
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Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
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I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.
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The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.
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Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.
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A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.
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We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from the drag of continued indebtedness to others, was all we coveted.
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Scramble to reach higher ground. Order and sanity, something to comfort me.
