Chris Cooper Quotes
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
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Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.
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The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
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Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.
