Jim Cooper Quotes
True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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I go train, and like with Conan, I'm in leather, and with Drogo, I'm in leather or armor or something else. I'm not in my adidas sweat suit or my matching tracksuit pants to go work out. I got too busy of a day. I've got my boots.
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I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
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We didn't necessarily have the best day today. Looking back, it was an ugly game two years ago.
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True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.