Chris Cornell Quotes

Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.

Chris Cornell Audioslave

• Thinking
• Care
• Listening
• Sincerity

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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  • Fan
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• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Great
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• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
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• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
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• It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
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• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
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• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
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• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • People
  • Help
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• 'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Live
  • Kids
  • motivation

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
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• Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Trying

• I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

  

  Beck
  • Lost
  • Point
  • Where

• I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Issues
  • Early
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• If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Up
  • Process
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• I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

  

  Adam Brody
  • People
  • Work
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• A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Rest
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• My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
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• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
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  • Frustrated

• My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Trouble

• To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Pride
  • Library
  • Apology

• The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Areas

• I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Thinking
  • Care
  • Listening