Layne Staley Quotes
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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I try to make money infrequently, as infrequently as possible simply because I believe that rare events are not fairly valued, and that the rarer the event, the more undervalued it will be in price.
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Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
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I ain't no angel, I still got a few more dances with the devil.I'm cleaning up my act little by little.I'm getting there. I can finally stand the man in the mirror I see.I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.
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I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
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I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
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At age 10, I was better at ballet than I think I will ever be at any physical activity for the rest of my life.
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What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
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Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.
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In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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Misery Loves Company. SPIN Magazine (March 1993).
