Jim Cooper Quotes
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
Quotes to Explore
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.
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Cash flow is a problem for a small and developing company, and the lack of it is the reason why many small businesses fail. Ensure that you have enough money in your bank account to make you able to carry out daily basic needs for your business.
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I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.
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Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
