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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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
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The Fabians laid the groundwork for modern social democracy, and their influence on the world would end up being at least as powerful as that of Marx.
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I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.
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We live in the world our questions create.
