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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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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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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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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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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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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You have to work hard each day and try to figure out what's going on and try to get better each day.
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Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?
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I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.
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When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.
