Mike Patton Quotes
I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works with the sound of a word than with its meaning. Often I just choose the words because of the rhythm not because of the meaning.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.
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There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.
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I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works with the sound of a word than with its meaning. Often I just choose the words because of the rhythm not because of the meaning.
