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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We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state.
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Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.
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It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.
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Women are really scrutinised for what they wear.
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Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.