Chris Cornell Quotes
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Today, I am a touring standup comic who cannot stand up. Within three minutes, I begin to wilt, lose my balance, and topple over. I can tap dance and run in heels, but I need to use a wheelchair to navigate airports.
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There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.
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This relationship is going to be built on trust.
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I think doing dramas kind of wears on you. It's just intense.
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Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.
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My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
