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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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 think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
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I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
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I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.
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Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
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When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.
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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
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I wouldn't say I'm bigger than Jesus. If I had to guess, I'd say probably, yeah, but as far as I know, the bible is never clear on this.
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I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
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Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
