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 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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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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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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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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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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There's no such thing as multitasking.
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If you're a poor white person and your life sucks, it's easy for you to blame Hispanics cos you don't want to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm the reason my life sucks.' The Republicans do a good job exploiting that.
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You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies.
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The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
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As the tree is bent, so it will grow.
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I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
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It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.
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Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.
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'Kiss Land' wasn't about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in - introverted, like David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch.' You didn't know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.
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Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.
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Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
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Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
