Chris Cornell Quotes
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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My life is not perfect.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
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I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.
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My new iPhone, I'm obsessed. My iPod. I love all the Mac crap. AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
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May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
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Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
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The words you say never live up to the words in your head.
