Layne Staley Quotes
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.
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I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
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I don't think my father was my mentor.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.
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She said'I'm young enoughI'm old enoughIn the city machineWhere industriesFill the fish full of mercury'
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A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.
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You see I've always been a fighter
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Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man.
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The fashion consumer likes a high-low mix - I want to be a brand that represents that.
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Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.
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Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.
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The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.
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Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
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Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.
