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" Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done. "
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" Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others. "
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" America is a meritocracy. "
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" I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. "
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" Just because it's been around for centuries, doesn't mean it's cool to be a creepy old man. "
Hannah Gadsby
Man
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" You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes. "
Jessica Alba
Best
Cool
Successful
" The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me. "
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" Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me. "
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" Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?' "
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Glorious
Always
Why
" My mom is very close to me, and it has been really cool having a mom that's closer to my age because she can go out with me and stuff. "
Lindsay Lohan
She
Age
Cool
" I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked. "
P. J. O'Rourke
School
Learning
Going
" If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Family
Friends
Home
" Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good. "
P. J. O'Rourke
People
Earth
Good
" To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. "
Adlai E. Stevenson
Test
Cool
Man
" I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Technology
Information
Politicians
" I admire a lot of photographers, but I feel very disconnected from them at the same time. I don't feel I employ any technique like these people in my work. I guess if there's any influence from any of these photographers, it's this: They were concerned only with beauty. Not with 'cool.' I hope I'm doing the same. "
Jamie Hince
Hope
People
Time
" I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say. "
Karan Johar
Thinking
Best
Me
" Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Minds
Facts
Up
" You just have to play it cool. You don't want everyone to know you're an amateur. "
Shawn Mendes
Know
You
Want
" I think cool moments like winning a Grammy deserve a nice little party where you really soak it in and not have to work and stuff. I do remember throwing a party on that Grammy night, but it was work. "
Ciara
Cool
Night
Think
" I'm just a big old nerd. I'm not that cool guy at all. "
Guillermo Diaz
Big
Just
Cool
" The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other. "
Mitch Glazer
Cool
Happiness
Beach
" If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor. "
Jim McKay
Feel Good
Money
Yourself
" I follow all these fashion blogs that are cool and inspire me. I'm not really obsessed with anyone except for the people that I like romantically. I get excited when they post. Sometimes I like to stalk my exes. "
Kylie Jenner
Fashion
Inspire
Cool
" There's a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I'm not as cool as I once was. "
Paul Walker
Cool
Time
Place
" Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician. "
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Skill
Effort
Part
" Some people are cool, some are cold. Many are down to earth, while a select few are divas. "
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People
Some People
Cool
" So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from. "
Slash
Listening
Parents
Music
" I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good. "
Kehlani
Amazing
School
Cool