Chris Cornell Quotes
For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.
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I'm a big fan of TIËSTO, and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.
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'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you're being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you're not a policy maker.
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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
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If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.
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For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.
