Bradley Cooper Quotes

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Couple
  • Places
  • Australia

• News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Society
  • Start
  • News

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Age
  • Loved
  • Animals

• My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Words
  • Star
  • Never

• I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Always
  • Confident
  • Maybe

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Win
  • Will
  • Guilty

• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Addiction
  • Immune

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • Me
  • Ninja

• Don't talk it, walk it.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica

• The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, 19The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,- And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Heart

• For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Confidence

• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Words
  • Catholic

• Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.

  

  Scott Anderson
  • Passion
  • Taken
  • Christian

• We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children’s service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother—a working woman, dependent on her help—feared the maid.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Mother
  • Catholic
  • Supposed

• Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Catholic