Chris Cornell Quotes

If you knew someone who was terminally ill and in grave pain, would you participate in an assisted suicide? I would.

Chris Cornell Soundgarden

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• I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Job
  • Wish
  • Day

• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Always
  • Poverty
  • Horror

• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Cool
  • Stand

• My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Kitchen

• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Freedom
  • Progress
  • Diversity

• I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Career
  • Literature

• When you're rich you don't write checks.

  

  Randy Moss
  • You
  • Write
  • Rich

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Big

• I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Man
  • Serious

• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Hard
  • Novel
  • Keep

• I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Hair
  • Choice
  • Days

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Think
  • Better

• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Wish

• My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Hair
  • Being
  • Blonde

• All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

  

  David Mixner
  • Help
  • Past
  • Lost

• How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Children
  • Why

• The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

  

  B. Traven
  • Life
  • Real
  • Night

• Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Giving

• To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--

  

  John Gardner
  • Pain
  • Powerful
  • Evil

• If you knew someone who was terminally ill and in grave pain, would you participate in an assisted suicide? I would.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Pain
  • Suicide