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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.
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The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.
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I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.
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I always wanted to make a living as an actor living in New York. A New York actor. What's better than that?
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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.
