James F. Cooper Quotes

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

James F. Cooper

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• I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fashion

• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Loved
  • Advertising

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Country
  • Animals
  • Through

• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Style
  • English

• I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Psycho

• I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Day
  • Always
  • Eating

• I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Makeup

• I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Believe
  • American

• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Authenticity

• The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Bad
  • Motivated
  • News

• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Hand
  • Like
  • Potato

• Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Soul
  • Control
  • Failure

• Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • More
  • Nerd

• You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Poetry

• When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Time
  • Free
  • Doing

• I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Life
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Mind
  • Band
  • Rock

• I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Television

• I don't think I would have made 'Blank Project; if I hadn't made 'Cherry Thing.' I think that was a real rebirth in a way, and a remembrance of how I like to make music best, the most. Like being in a more chaotic place, maybe. Like a place of making and being creative where the mistakes can be left in.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Music
  • Real

• The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

  

  James F. Cooper