Chris Cornell Quotes

RockNet: Were you terribly uncomfortable at the recent Grammy Award Show?

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• Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Tax
  • Effective
  • Global

• We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Baby
  • Healthy

• My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
  • Author

• What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • Society
  • Nothing

• I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Chinese
  • Transformation

• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
  • Problems
  • Place

• There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Society
  • Critical

• I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.

  

  Washed Out
  • Just
  • Normal
  • Unfortunately

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Power
  • Shadow
  • Security

• I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Party

• I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • Book
  • Attention

• The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Want
  • Passion
  • Talent

• One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Family
  • Humor
  • Sense

• You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • World
  • Kind

• If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Like
  • Jack Whittaker

• The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Great
  • Live
  • Die

• I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Up
  • World
  • Game

• I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • People
  • History
  • Future

• I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Time
  • Calm

• It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Opinion

• RockNet: Were you terribly uncomfortable at the recent Grammy Award Show?

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden