Chris Cornell Quotes

I really had to come to the conclusion, the sort of humbling conclusion that, guess what, I'm no different than anybody else: I've got to sort of ask for help - not something I ever did, ever. And then part two of that is, like, accept it when it comes, and, you know, believe what people tell me.

Chris Cornell Soundgarden

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• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Simple

• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Injustice

• Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Different
  • Think
  • Choices

• I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Alcohol

• I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • School
  • Never

• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Different
  • Country
  • Done

• I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • People
  • Same
  • Mistakes

• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Always
  • Enough

• Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Fun
  • Words

• People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Mother
  • Famous

• I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.

  

  Dick Van Dyke

• Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.

  

  John Boehner
  • Good
  • True
  • Comeback

• I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Writing

• I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.

  

  Markus Wolf
  • People
  • Money
  • Service

• When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Sorrow
  • Welfare

• I really had to come to the conclusion, the sort of humbling conclusion that, guess what, I'm no different than anybody else: I've got to sort of ask for help - not something I ever did, ever. And then part two of that is, like, accept it when it comes, and, you know, believe what people tell me.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different