James F. Cooper Quotes
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
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I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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There seems to be no question that Mussolini is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.
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I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
