Chris Cornell Quotes
When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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There has been a major shift in how we live in our homes. Everyone knows the kitchen is the soul of the house. It's more of an open-concept approach.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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If you're a child of store owners, if you're brought up in a store, you learn good manners. You have to be genial, well-liked. You're not going to sell a customer if you're rude. You also get with different age groups, and different types of people. So be respectful. Being respectful is very important. You have to learn this.
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.
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For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.
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You should strike at the moon in the water.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.
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They pampered me, especially my grandmother ... I loved her with all my heart.
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When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.
