Layne Staley Quotes
Alice In Chains: Love, Sex, Pain And Suffering... Interview conducted by Ian McFarlane in 1991
Quotes to Explore
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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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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I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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If you don't write your books, there will be graveyards full of children.
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Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.
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... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.
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I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
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The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.
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Alice In Chains: Love, Sex, Pain And Suffering... Interview conducted by Ian McFarlane in 1991
