David Cooperrider Quotes
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Being evil is easy.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
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I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
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Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
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He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
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If we do not solve our civilizational crisis - a disintegrating culture, dying populations, and invasions unresisted - the children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West. In our hearts we know what must be done. We must stop the invasion. But do our leaders have the vision and will to do it?
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We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.
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I do not like violence.
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In response to a question about what 'keeps her up at night', I worry about the fact that in K-12 education I can look at your zip code and tell whether or not you're going to get a good education.
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We live in the world our questions create.
