Chris Cornell Quotes

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

Chris Cornell Soundgarden

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• I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Age
  • Play

• There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Know
  • Child
  • Moment

• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Groups

• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • World
  • Children
  • Lost

• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Decisions
  • Youthful

• Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Chance

• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Best
  • Always
  • Person

• The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Use
  • Tongue
  • Tool

• Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fault

• With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Great
  • Ideas
  • Changes

• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Opinion
  • Arguments

• If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Money
  • Home
  • Yourself

• It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Real

• People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Work
  • Alone

• I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.

  

  Frank Welker
  • Alone

• This truth-to prove, and make thine own: ‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Alone

• As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Alone