Jerry Cantrell Quotes
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.
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I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.
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M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.
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This is the potential start of something...awareness
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Jerry Cantrell Missing Lost Friend, Moving On With Trip. MTV News (July 1, 2002).
