Chris Cornell Quotes

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

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• I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Mean
  • Thought
  • Go

• Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Now

• I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Sorry
  • Talk

• 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Me
  • First
  • Deal

• Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.

  

  Yuna
  • Singing
  • Name
  • Jazz

• I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Read

• It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Work
  • Job
  • Experience

• Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Government

• I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Reason
  • Mountain
  • Skiing

• Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Matter
  • Write
  • Problems

• If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Men
  • Abortion
  • Pregnant

• You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Real
  • True
  • Memories

• Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Ideas
  • Yourself
  • New Ideas

• The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Serious

• Who killed John Keats?'I,' says the Quarterly,So savage and Tartarly;''Twas one of my feats.'

  

  Lord Byron
  • Savage

• What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

  

  Alcuin
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes

• I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.

  

  Grace Dell Nichols
  • Coming
  • Conventions
  • Agreed

• My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

  

  Miguel

• I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

  

  Charles Bronson
  • Hand

• In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Today
  • Innovation
  • Google

• At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden