Chris Cornell Quotes
Melody Maker: Did Andy Wood's death and then Kurt Cobain's affect your attitude to drugs?
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
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The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
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My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.
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The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.
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Melody Maker: Did Andy Wood's death and then Kurt Cobain's affect your attitude to drugs?
