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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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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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 judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
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Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
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I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere.
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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.
