Jim Cooper Quotes

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

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• We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Business
  • News
  • Gathering

• In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Book
  • Find
  • Biographies

• There's more to life than cheek bones.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • More
  • Bones

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • France
  • Italy

• It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • You
  • Stop

• The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Great
  • Transformation

• You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Real
  • Friends

• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learn
  • Difficult
  • Languages

• I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Play
  • Like
  • Dare

• I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then you get to your 20s, and you start watching their movies. And then you become an actor, as I did late in college, and then you're really watching them. And they were really very good.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Good
  • Parents
  • College

• I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • She
  • Week

• If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Heart
  • Path

• Every time you become confidential with some people, you hear of a new kind of dirty trick.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Time
  • Dirty

• All ordinary expression may be explained causally, but creative expression which is the absolute contrary of ordinary expression, will be forever hidden from human knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Forever

• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life

• Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Beautiful
  • Sports

• When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

  

  Christopher Moore
  • People

• In 'Delhi Belly,' I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look.

  

  Vir Das
  • Movies
  • Bald
  • Different Look

• Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

  

  Steven Van Zandt
  • Words
  • Best
  • Critics

• I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Dream
  • Society
  • Color

• President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

  

  Jim Cooper