Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.
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Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.
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To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
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The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.
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To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
