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Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

Maynard James Keenan

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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
Composer
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Ravenna
Ohio
James Herbert Keenan
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But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
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I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something
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Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here
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If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.
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Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
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It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.
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Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.
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I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put multilingual on the resume, should I ever find the genie.
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This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.
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I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
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