Chris Cornell Quotes

There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ended up on an international stage with huge success.

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• I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Day
  • Diversity

• When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Song
  • Myself

• I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Myself
  • Trust
  • Weird

• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Book
  • Think

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Think
  • Too Much

• My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Same

• When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Failure
  • Impossible

• Sei giorni me n'andai matina e seraPer balze e per pendici orride e strane,Dove non via, dove sentier non era.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.

  

  John Grant
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

  

  James L. Buckley
  • Ambition

• There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ended up on an international stage with huge success.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Up
  • Music
  • Success