Chris Cornell Quotes
I was depressed for a long time. If you’re depressed long enough, it’s almost a comfort, a state of mind that you’ve made peace with because you’ve been in it so long. It’s a very selfish world.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).
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I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
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I was depressed for a long time. If you’re depressed long enough, it’s almost a comfort, a state of mind that you’ve made peace with because you’ve been in it so long. It’s a very selfish world.
