Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
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Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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Metaphysics is a science.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
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In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.
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But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
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I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.
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We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it.
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Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be achieved in the foreseeable future. More people have been killed by crusaders than by statesmen.
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The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
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Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
