David H. Cooke Quotes
The best gift you can give, besides your unconditional love, is to be strong for them when they are present and stronger for yourself when they are not!
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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Many people love me, many people hate me - there's nobody in between. That's the way I prefer it.
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The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.
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There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it.
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The best gift you can give, besides your unconditional love, is to be strong for them when they are present and stronger for yourself when they are not!
