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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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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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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Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.
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For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.
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After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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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.
