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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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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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 love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
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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!
