Kim Thayil Quotes
Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?
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He's a mean, mean man, but I love him all I can.
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I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.
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When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
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Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.
