Corey Taylor Quotes
With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
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If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
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It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
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I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
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I'm addicted to a really tough workout. I like to be drenched in sweat when I'm done because I feel accomplished.
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With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.
