Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
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The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
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We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.
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We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
