Chris Cornell Quotes
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.
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As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
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People pay little attention to banner ads - in fact, everyone dislikes them - and that leads to infinitesimally small click-through rates that make marketers unhappy.
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In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
