David E. Cooper Quotes
Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
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I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
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He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. (11 May 1943)
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Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.
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I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.
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There was no concept of fashion and catwalk shows where I came from.
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My grandfather is a blues musician.
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I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.
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I would suggest always getting behind a company that shares your goals, whom you have access to the people who run it and who truly care about the world. This way we steer the ship together and many fears can be let go of.
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.
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Friends give you a shoulder to cry on. But best friends are ready with a shovel to hurt the person that made you cry.
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I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.
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Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.
