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.
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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.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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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.
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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.
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The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.
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We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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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.
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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.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.
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In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.
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If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.
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Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.
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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.
