Jim Cooper Quotes

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

Jim Cooper

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

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

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
  • Run
  • Been

• What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Past
  • Attitude
  • General

• I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Important
  • Think
  • Really

• I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Myself
  • Everything

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • She
  • Mother
  • Man

• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • America
  • Better
  • Step

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Reality
  • Failure
  • Software

• It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

  

  Adam Brody
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Date

• 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.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Image
  • Half
  • Himself

• '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.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Plan

• For economist the real world is often a special case.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • World
  • Real
  • Special

• The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

  

  James Altucher
  • People

• A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Time
  • Long
  • Food

• Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Pizza
  • Measurement

• Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Truth
  • Pretty
  • Science

• We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Pretty
  • Health