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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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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One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
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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 needs her freedom just like me.
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
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In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.
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Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.
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When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.
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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.
