Jim Cooper Quotes

We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

Jim Cooper

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• I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Up
  • She
  • Pretty

• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
  • Run
  • Been

• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • First

• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Understand
  • Discipline

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I'm interested in playing, not working.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Working
  • Playing
  • Interested

• In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Education

• I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Buddhist
  • Monk

• In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • You
  • Actor
  • Just

• A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Work
  • Song
  • Listening

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Perfect
  • Easier
  • Moderation

• I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• I would never want to pass a law limiting freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean we have to condone statements that undermine basic national unity and respect. Imagine being asked to defend a country where some citizens say the man in the White House isn't their president. Or a major presidential contender accuses the commander in chief of not even being a U.S. citizen. Those kinds of statements erode trust in our democracy, and it's up to both parties to publicly reject them. We have to restore confidence that we are a nation that loves and believes in itself.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Country

• There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Control
  • Government

• I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot-I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Fun
  • Stupid

• I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

  

  Jim Cooper
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