Denton Cooley Quotes
I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
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I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.
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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
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We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
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I don't believe in having safety nets - you'll end up using them!
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Lo que sé lo soporto con lo que no sé.
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The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
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One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
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A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
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There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.
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The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
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I am here to change anything. I'm here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul and what is not.
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My wife has cut our lovemaking down to once a month, but I know two guys she's cut out entirely.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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T.V. found me. I was offered jobs. It came in handy when I started having babies. Just one night's work, and then I could go home. I loved 'Surprise Surprise', but it was hard work. 'Blind Date' was a doddle by comparison.
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When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.
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I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.
