Denton Cooley Quotes

I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.

Denton Cooley

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• Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Military
  • Liberals

• I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

  

  Warren Moon
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Food
  • Rest
  • Football

• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Giving
  • Explain
  • Does

• I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Business
  • Think
  • Now

• I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • History
  • English

• We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Try
  • Property
  • Rather

• The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Program
  • China
  • Complacency

• Liberals consider people to be nuisances.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Consider
  • Liberals

• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Taking
  • Advise
  • Vow

• I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Myself

• Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

  

  Curtis Armstrong
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I just can't help but see things differently.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Help
  • Things
  • Differently

• My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Brother
  • Missing
  • Gone

• My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • School
  • Dream

• I think women athletes who have been successful need to help other sports, those sports that are just emerging. That's what I've been thinking about and looking forward to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Help

• I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Problem

• The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Soul
  • Animals
  • Share

• When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

  

  Catharine Beecher
  • Society
  • Hands
  • Example

• I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Alive
  • Privilege
  • Spiritually