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.

  

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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
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  A. C. Benson
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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.

  

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• 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
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• I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

  

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• Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

  

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• Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

  

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• When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.

  

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• When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I go out and I'm like candy-striping, or becoming a therapist or something. I think that maybe, maybe I'm supposed to be a musician, because of that fact.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
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• 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