Chris Cornell Quotes

I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, 'That's what rock is.'

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Relation
  • Arts
  • Sciences

• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Always
  • Dreams
  • Insecurity

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musicals

• Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Food

• The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Thought

• China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

  

  Xenophon
  • Government
  • Laws
  • Wherever

• I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Kids

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Loved
  • Bird
  • View

• Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Jesus
  • Meaning
  • Example

• To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Politicians
  • Themselves

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Great
  • Money
  • Man

• Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Up
  • Women
  • Relationship

• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Birth

• For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

  

  George Linnaeus Banks
  • Good
  • Future
  • Distance

• Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Art
  • Painting

• Imagination is the other end of Reality.

  

  K Hari Kumar
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Israel
  • Hatred
  • Decade

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

  

  Elle Fanning
  • Real
  • Home
  • Baby

• I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, 'That's what rock is.'

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Good
  • School
  • Rock