Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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I just want to make everyone happy.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I am not alone. I am free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody, I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.
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I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.
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As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
