Layne Staley Quotes

On how he met Jerry Cantrell, quoted in Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.

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• One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Writing
  • Change
  • Fashion

• Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Waiting
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

  

  Edith Head
  • Time
  • Today
  • Movies

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Restaurant

• I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Sleep
  • Films
  • Horror

• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Story
  • Mankind

• I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Great
  • Art
  • Comedy

• We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Environment
  • Red
  • Cutting

• I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Great
  • Music
  • May

• I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Great
  • Money
  • Giving

• The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Kid
  • Shy

• Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Expression

• We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Step
  • Stand

• There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • God
  • Future
  • Science

• I began to understand. 'A Faustian bargain...,' I said.'The Faustian bargain,' said the girl. 'All the church had to do to gain the universe was sell its soul.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Soul
  • Girl
  • Church

• In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Heart
  • Hand

• With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Men
  • Texas

• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Revolution

• I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine and with beats. Anyone can just listen to a beat, that's boring. But when you actually perform in front of them, it's like: wow. It's undeniable talent. That's my advantage.

  

  AraabMuzik
  • Artist
  • Advantage
  • Beats

• Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Popular
  • Show

• If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Happy
  • Achievement

• On how he met Jerry Cantrell, quoted in Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.

  

  Layne Staley