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Marilyn Manson, born Brian Warner, is an American musician, actor, and visual artist. He is renowned for his unique musical style and stage persona, being one of the key figures in industrial and gothic rock. Marilyn Manson's music blends various musical elements, including rock, metal, electronic, and classical music, often exploring themes of darkness, death, and the supernatural.

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“I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.”

Want Believe I Believe Please Agree Please Me

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“When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.”

Want Feelings Dies Goal Want Something Wanting To Die Anger And Fear Good Goal

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“if I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a band. And now that I have one, the fact that they are giving me such resistance and publicity, they have made me far bigger than they'd ever have wanted me to have become. So I guess in a strange way the Christians have influenced me the most.”

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“I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.”

People Want Firsts Real Shows Song Existence Atheism Media Tvs Eternal Dresses Blame Entertainment Positive Atheism Tv Shows Costumes Frenzy Fandoms

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“You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.”

People Way Want Looks Certain

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“Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to be like us, I want you to be like you.”

Thinking Want Needs Kids Individual Like You I Want You

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“I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen.”

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“As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.”

Ifs Want Use Form Sound One Thing Stage Shapes Performances Atmosphere Imagery

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“I think every man and woman is a star. It's just a matter of realizing and becoming it. It's all a matter of willpower. The world is just how you see it. If you want to have other people tell you how to see it, then you can. But if you want to look at it differently, then it's limitless what you can do. That's why I don't feel the need to be one person. I can be as many people as I like.”

People Ifs Thinking Men World Want Needs Feels Looks Persons I Can Matter Stars Can Do Realizing Vision Becoming Men And Women Every Man Willpower Limitless

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“People alway ask me what advantages fame has started to bring; there are always plenty of free drinks, but other times people wanna put stuff into your drink to kill you off. Their gonna have to try a lot harder if they want to get me.”

People Ifs Want Trying Asks Stuff Drink Fame Advantage Harder Plenty Ask Me

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“As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.”

People Want Ends Seems Wanting More

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“When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.”

People Ifs Want Like You Like Me Being Yourself

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“I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.”

People Want Easy Devil Philosopher Brands Worshippers Great Philosophers

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“I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If anyone chooses to ignore the message or the messenger, they do so at their own risk. Believe it or not, there are many more people out there that understand what I am trying to do than society wants to admit. The way I live my life represents a much bigger part of America than anyone would care to imagine”

“If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them”

Ifs Want Trying Hard Enough Stars Rocks Rock Star

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“I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.”

People Thinking Knows Way Want Care Certain Please And Love I Care Don't Change Understand Me I Do Care

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“When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day'”

People Ifs Want Should Girl Term Simple Break

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“You have to really swallow your pride and admit that you want to make a comeback. And that means that you weren't at your best and I feel like I stopped being who I needed to be. When I started making this record "Born Villain", I didn't want to be what I used to be but I certainly didn't want to be what I was at the time. I knew that I was supposed to be something better then what I was. I feel that I am close to being what I'm supposed to be and am enjoying what I'm doing here.”

Want Feels Mean Used Enjoy Born Records Pride Needed Used To Be Supposed To Be Villain Something Better Comeback

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“Looking back, the only person that really surprised me was Chris Vrenna only because I've known him since 1992, and for him not to be able to say it to my face, "Hey, I don't want to do this anymore." Instead, he said "I'll see you tomorrow" and then he never came back. I find that strange. I don't know if he is afraid of me or thinks I'm going to beat him over the head with something. I'm not like that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Persons Said Able Faces Known Strange Tomorrow Beats Hey Looking Back

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“A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.”

People Want Decision Judging Easier Scared

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“The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.”

People Want Accepting Laughing Fronts Tvs Burden Originality

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“I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.”

Want Feels Use Stupid Matured

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“To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.”

Want Mean Standards Supposed To Be Be You Comeback

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“I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.”

People Thinking Way Want Looks Certain Presentation

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“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.”

Ifs Want Firsts Real Ships Real Friends Real Friendship Who Your Real Friends Are Who Your Friends Are

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“When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.”

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“I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.”

World Want Feels Morality Guilt Everyday Caught

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“Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war with Christ." Manson: "I can't possibly be at war with Christ, because your religion killed him and what he stood for. But if you want to be at war with me, bring it on."”

Ifs Want I Can War Guy Hate Christ Religious Christianity Catholicism This Guy Manson

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“I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.”

People Want Kind Jobs Faces Guy Views Television Just One Garbage Presenting Smiling Faces Vapid

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“Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.”

Want Situation Willing Findings Finding Someone

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“I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.”

Thinking Way Want My Friends Ashes Gravestone

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“Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors”

Want Actors Musician

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“If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons”

People Ifs Want Reason Hate Hate Me

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“I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.”

Want I Want You

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About the Author

Born: January 5, 1969
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 420

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