Chris Cornell Quotes
Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
Action Bronson
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
Abu Bakar Bashir
I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
Gary Dourdan
The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
Gail Simmons
I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
Kacey Musgraves
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
Jacki Weaver
I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall
On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
Vince Cable
People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'
Kawhi Leonard
When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.
Alex Timbers
I'm having to do a lot to keep my clothes on and not be cast in girlfriend roles. Some women will say, "I don't want to be a man - I want the opportunities I can get as a woman." Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.
Angelina Jolie
I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
FKA twigs
Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
