David Cooperrider Quotes
Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.
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I love Evian face spray because it's a really easy way to just freshen up your face, especially if you're traveling on an airplane - I get really dry on airplanes.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
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For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.
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It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on 'Breaking Bad,' knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.
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I like the old-school muscle cars.
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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
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We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to be suspicious of ideas and suspicious of your own mind at the same time. It's often a matter of orchestration and pacing. Of shaping some kind of dialectic flow.
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Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?
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Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
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Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
