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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We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation.
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I knew Mrs. Liberace. Lee and I were great friends. I know the whole inside story.
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I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.
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The acting in 'Downton Abbey' has been consistently excellent across the board.
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There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.
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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
