Chris Cornell Quotes
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch.
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Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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Arcade Fire always churns out music that makes me want to move.
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'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
