James F. Cooper Quotes
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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10) Anarchy is the least stable of social structures.
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As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, acquitting her of the homicide of her baby girl, I relived what I felt back when court clerk Deirdre Robertson read the verdicts in the Simpson case. But this case is different. The verdict is far more shocking. Why? Because Casey Anthony was no celebrity.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
