Chris Cornell Quotes
I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!
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Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.
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The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.
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I have people I love and trust on my team. And I'm lucky my family is incredibly talented in a variety of ways.
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I actually really like Christopher Walken. I find him a really interesting actor. He's such a character that I love everything he's in.
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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
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Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same.
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I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.
