Jerry Cantrell Quotes
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
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To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
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You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
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I was always more interested in asking people about themselves than I was telling them about me.
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Requiring the Fed to focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar will create a solid foundation for economic growth.
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It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
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Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.
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My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.
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The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
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I don't know any elected Democrats that I get along with.
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I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.
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In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.
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Kiss my ass and my anus’cause it’s finally famous.
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
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Bismarck traveling in an open carriage through the green valley of Hofgastein to Salzburg with Vortragender Rat Robert von Keudell and Geheimrat Heinrich Abeken on 18 August 1865 after the Gastein Convention had been signed on 14 August 1865 (as reported by Keudell). Bismarck: Die gesammelten Werke, Band 7 Gespräche, 1924, p. 101
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Interview with WAAF Radio (August 23, 2010).