Kim Thayil Quotes
I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
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Education is so important.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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I'm actually Hispanic, and my mother is Puerto Rican.
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Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.
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Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
