Chris Cornell Quotes

No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

Chris Cornell Soundgarden

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• I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

  

  Earl Hines
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Memory

• As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Kid
  • Now

• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Person
  • Point
  • Lie

• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • World
  • Like
  • Environmental

• I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Perfect
  • Blue

• It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Real
  • Me

• To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Attention

• My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Men
  • Women
  • Gossip

• I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Moments
  • Independence

• As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Christian

• Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Place
  • Israel
  • Eat

• The point of vision and desire are the same.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Vision
  • Same

• When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Years
  • Own
  • Discover

• I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Strong
  • Disability

• In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • People
  • Up
  • System

• I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Life
  • Live
  • Celebrity

• The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.

  

  Dennis Lehane
  • Happy
  • Funny
  • Dark

• Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

  

  Jeremy Collier
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Death joins us to the great majority.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Death
  • Majority

• Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

  

  James Surowiecki

• No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden