Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.
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In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.
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I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.
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I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
