Chris Cornell Quotes
I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.
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Eyes are very appealing to me. I also like somebody who is interested in a career for themselves and can treat me like a normal person.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.
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I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
