Chris Cornell Quotes

What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.

Chris Cornell Soundgarden

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• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • World
  • Political
  • Party

• The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Team

• I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Talent

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Very

• I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Fame

• I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • New
  • November
  • Colors

• 'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Day

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Always
  • Sports
  • Interest

• I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Love
  • Game
  • Hockey

• I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Never

• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Products
  • Buying

• Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Me
  • Gets
  • Outdoors

• I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Simple
  • Possible
  • Complexity

• My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Father
  • Fan
  • Journalist

• Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • King

• We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

  

  Bo Gritz
  • Long
  • Home
  • Together

• When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • People
  • Hand

• Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Moving

• Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Pain
  • Humble

• What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Band
  • Personality