Jerry Cantrell Quotes
A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy. The Skinny (November 13, 2013).
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been married over 50 years of my life.
-
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
-
I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
-
Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
-
I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
-
I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
-
I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
-
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
-
I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
-
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
-
I'm a 'Harry Potter' fan, a 'Twilight' fan, and I think 'The Hunger Games' surpasses them all.
-
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
-
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
-
What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.
-
I've always lived in the moment.
-
Man is a tool-making animal.
-
Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied – they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
-
I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
-
In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
-
Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.
-
When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.
-
November does not work at all. Not a single one of the 16 baseball federations involved expressed the view that November was a better time.
-
I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to be.
-
A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy. The Skinny (November 13, 2013).
