Jim Cooper Quotes
When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.
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If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be
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... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
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It is being paid for by private dollars. … The city is not paying for it; the city has no dollars in this. … I don't know the shape of the bus, I don't know the color of the bus, I don't know the length for the bus. I just know that we're going to provide buses that are going to be paid for by private dollars.
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When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.
