John Sherman Cooper Quotes
I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.
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There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.
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Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
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I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.
