Chris Cornell Quotes
And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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Earth is going to lose its oceans in the future, just as Venus did in the past. How long planets retain their oceans is a function of distance from the sun, all other things being equal.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
