Chris Cornell Quotes

The first time I ever went to Hawaii, I was listening to island music, thinking, 'I could've been born here, and I'm pretty sure I would never play that.'

Chris Cornell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 20, 1964 - May 18, 2017

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Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on. And suddenly, I realized how theatrical Shakespeare is, how alive, how wonderful it is when it's opened up by a great director and a great company.

Jeremy Irons

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This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

John Quincy Adams

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I read a lot of history, and I know that once upon a time, a coin was worth $5 if it had $5 worth of gold in it. Now we have paper that is just backed by fiat... Maybe in the new world, something gets backed by consensus.

Lloyd Blankfein

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Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

Bruce Beresford

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If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

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I grew up watching Westerns.

Anthony Hemingway

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My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

Arthur Rock

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Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

William Godwin

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Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

Sylvester Stallone

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The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

Scott Anderson

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The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.

Ridley Scott

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I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.

Richard Flanagan

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