Dennis Cooper Quotes

I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.

Dennis Cooper

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • You
  • Change
  • Stop

• Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Jealousy

• Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Children
  • Man

• Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • God
  • Think
  • Name

• I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • School
  • My Life

• The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Family
  • Kitchen
  • Opening

• We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Song
  • Effort

• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • School
  • Why
  • Learn

• I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Country
  • Years

• The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Soul
  • Woman
  • Emotional

• A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Blood
  • Taste
  • Fighter

• When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Time
  • May
  • Road

• Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Great
  • Environment
  • Wrong

• Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Way
  • Once
  • Dive

• Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Impossible
  • Program
  • Been

• The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Money
  • Death

• The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the risk of cancer is relatively easy. Figuring out exactly which people will get sick, or how to cure them, is a lot more complicated.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • People
  • Risk
  • Sick

• I like to get on with people. I don't go around being nasty, but if someone crosses me, I can be horrible back.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Back
  • Someone

• When will you human monsters stop twisting innocent people into beasts and putting the world at risk?

  

  Nancy Holder
  • Risk
  • Human
  • Monsters

• Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Friends
  • Crazy
  • Times

• I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.

  

  Dennis Cooper
  • Risk
  • Lonely
  • Fact