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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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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Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.
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In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.
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We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.
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I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.
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As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.
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'Alice Cooper, Christian: ‘The World Belongs to Satan’' Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews.com, December 31, 2014.
