James F. Cooper Quotes
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.
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The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
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No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway...
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I can understand when people say that they're not a big fan of my music. That's an individual opinion, and I respect that. But you don't have the right to comment on my choice of citizenship, my skin colour, or my religion. It's not open to discussion.
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
