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We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.

Maynard James Keenan

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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
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Guitarist
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Ravenna
Ohio
James Herbert Keenan
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I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
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The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.
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Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
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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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Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normalbut if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.
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The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.
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Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
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There's always somebody in your life you know that just, somehow, you know, they're just that borderline sociopath that just wants what they want and doesn't care about relationships. Everybody has several of those people in their life.
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One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.
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A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
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I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
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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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I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
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Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
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You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.
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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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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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Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
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You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world just be an artist and express your area.
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There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
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