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It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.


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ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that ...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL You should never rely on public transportation during the apocalypse. Everyone should know that.
J. CORNELL MICHEL I’m not a psychopath; my brain just works a little differently than that of the average person.
J. CORNELL MICHEL I'm sure my unique brain tastes the same as a normal brain. Actually, mine might be slightly tastier...
J. CORNELL MICHEL She’s probably good at compartmentalizing her feelings. Or maybe she just doesn’t have a soul.
J. CORNELL MICHEL Everyone should be comfy during the apocalypse.
J. CORNELL MICHEL I’m just trying to do my part to save the world.
J. CORNELL MICHEL Zombies don't discriminate; they'll eat any brain they can sink their infected teeth into. I'm sure ...
J. CORNELL MICHEL I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry ab...
J. CORNELL MICHEL It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.
J. CORNELL MICHEL They all call me "Excuse me," even though my nametag clearly says "Jordan." It's like people don't a...
J. CORNELL MICHEL My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of ...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a ...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Franc...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write program...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL When the sun rises in the morning and sets in the night. When the moon comes into sight from the eas...
CHRIS Love that never stoped. That grew with each tear drop, with each fight. With endless nights talking ...
CHRIS Only true love will make it through the wicked world.
CHRIS Curiosity killed the cat, then it came back eight more times to try it again.
CHRIS I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
CHRIS ROCK Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Tr...
CHRIS RIDDELL I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin...
CHRIS PINE I had a beard way before it was fashionable.
CHRIS STAPLETON Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.
CHRIS JERICHO For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH