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.Jim Cooper
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
Daisy Donovan -
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.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
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.
Jack Black -
The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
Maisie Williams -
The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite -
Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
J. D. Hayworth
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
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.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
Sam Graves -
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
Patricia Highsmith -
It's all about sound. It's that simple.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
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.
Val McDermid
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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.
Van Morrison -
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
Salman Rushdie -
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.
Falk Hentschel -
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
Carl Barks -
I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
Viggo Mortensen -
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.
Athol Fugard -
Snapchat is a really intimate medium.
Joanna Coles -
I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk.
Joey Lauren Adams -
I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
Martin Short -
Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
John Podhoretz -
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.
Jim Cooper