Alice Cooper Quotes
'Alice Cooper, Christian: ‘The World Belongs to Satan’' Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews.com, December 31, 2014.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I want to have a long career.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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All of my love - all of my kissin’ You don’t know what you’ve been a-missin’ Oh boy - when you’re with me - oh boy The world will see that you were meant for me
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There have been contestants on 'The Voice' from past seasons that didn't even win, and I have been so inspired by them. To think that I am now one of those winners? I really, really hope there is a little girl out there that is believing in herself and knows that she can be here.
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Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'
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'Alice Cooper, Christian: ‘The World Belongs to Satan’' Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews.com, December 31, 2014.
