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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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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Et primo ferri motu prosternite mundum;sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbemcurribus, unius gentes non esse triumphi.
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What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.
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We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.
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Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.
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You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I'd go blue in the face.
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Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.
