Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.
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The new government will have three major improvements. It is time to improve the economy in Taiwan.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.
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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
