Jim Cooper Quotes
We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.
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Cooking is a weird thing. In homes, I'd wager it's still women who do more of the cooking.
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I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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When I was 10 or 11, I started to sketch, and my drawings happened to be like fashion drawings... I'm lucky to have had this dream to chase since I was very young.
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We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
