cool

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘cool’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “I’ve always thought vampires were interesting because they live forever, they’re always well-financed, they dress well, you know what I mean? And they’re, like, cool. Usually vampire – you’ve never seen a broke vampire. Have you?” -Michael Ealy

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  • “I’m not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I’ve got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.” -Nick Cannon

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  • “In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that’s just a given… but we’re cool nerds.” -Jonathan Krohn

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  • “They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it’s bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.” -Ike Turner

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  • “You know, what ‘New Girl’ is doing is they’re bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren’t your typical guest-star-type people.” -Jake Johnson

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  • “My first three years of high school, I wasn’t that cool.” -Jonathan Bennett

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  • “I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It’s really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.” -Laura…

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  • “There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.” -Mike McCready

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  • “I’m so critical of myself. I’m actually really, really proud of the film. It’s really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.” -Giovanni Ribisi

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  • “My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn’t have such supportive parents.” -Olivia Williams

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  • “We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I’m really looking forward to going.” -Darius Rucker

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  • “The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.” -Donald Glover

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  • “Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.” -Josie Maran

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  • “The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.” -David Baldacci

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  • “Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.” -Danny Masterson

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  • “I am a huge fashion fan. It’s a really cool way to express yourself.” -Kiernan Shipka

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  • “I do resent that when you’re in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you’re put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they’re older. So it’s a drag that we’re not allowed to age.” -Rosanna Arquette

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  • “If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.” -Mac Davis

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  • “I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.” -Miranda Otto

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  • “I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I’m not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it’s cool.” -Daryl Hall

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  • “They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don’t think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it’s the only way they can get any work.” -Alvin Lee

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  • “I’ve been such an oddball my whole life, but I’ve always been cool and I’ve always dressed fairly smartly.” -Cee Lo Green

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  • “I think I’ve been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, ‘Hey, this is who I am.’” -Ryan Adams

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  • “Orlando’s a part of me. The next guy’s a part of me. And the next guy’s a part of me. That’s all I’m trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.” -Shemar Moore

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  • “The cool part about working for Disney is that they’ve allowed me to be a change agent.” -Christy Romano

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  • “Don’t get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That’s a story. Handled properly, it’s more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.” -Patrick Rothfuss

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  • “Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives’ guy. He didn’t try to be what he wasn’t. He just did what he did – made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.” -Michael Buble

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  • “My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.” -Robin Tunney

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  • “On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don’t care about looking cool or posing.” -Adrian Edmondson

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  • “See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.” -Rosalind Wiseman

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  • “I’m not hip, I’m not cool, I’m not glib.” -Eric Bogosian

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  • “Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.” -Jonathan Brandis

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  • “Tobey’s a mellow, cool guy. He’s just a good guy. I know that’s not the answer you want, and I don’t mean that as the political thing to say, but he’s a nice guy.” -Neil Patrick Harris

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  • “You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.” -Drew Bledsoe

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  • “I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.” -Tila Tequila

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  • “When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for ‘Harry Potter.’ That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the ‘Harry Potter’ commercial which was really cool,…

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  • “If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.” -Charlie Hunter

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  • “I found out some really cool ways to swing around the Winchester.” -Shane West

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  • “It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.” -Sarah Chalke

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  • “I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I’d like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.” -Bootsy Collins

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  • “If I’m driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I’ve got Peggy with me, we’re cool.” -Rita Coolidge

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  • “I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It’s demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you’ve got a cool action scene.” -Jose Padilha

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  • “Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie ‘Legally Blonde’ and I was like, ‘Cool, that’s something I want to do.’” -Lisa Leslie

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  • “Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We’re all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all… . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.” -Lizzy Caplan

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  • “A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who’s cool and what to wear.” -Jena Malone

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  • “I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud… that was pretty cool.” -Eleanor Mondale

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  • “I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.” -Ben Elton

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  • “It’s pretty cool to see how far music can take you.” -Luke Bryan

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  • “I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I’d never done which was really, really, really cool.” -Ashley Scott

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  • “My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?” -Emir…

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  • “Punk’s influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.” -Malcolm Mclaren

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  • “I like that band Get Hustle. They’re cool live. I haven’t heard their records, though.” -Stephen Malkmus

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  • “Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.” -Dakota Fanning

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  • “You get to actually see the music video on the TV in the pilot and we have the soundtrack playing at this big party. I thought that was sort of a cool moment, to actually have the A-Ha video is pretty cool.” -Will Estes

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  • “We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.” -Ronnie Spector

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  • “Men, when they fight in movies, it’s a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn’t take your eyes off of him.” -Lucy Liu

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  • “The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it’s there forever.” -Ryan Tedder

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  • “I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff – kissing – is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.” -Adam Brody

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  • “I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you’re born to make commercial music that’s cool. But if you’re born to not make commercial records, maybe you’re meant to cater to another market.” -Bryan White

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  • “It was cool to do someone else’s movie. It was a lot of fun.” -Jason Mewes

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  • “And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it’s like a treasure hunt, you know.” -Will Wright

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  • “Athletes are very cool to me.” -Regina King

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  • “This wired generation is kind of cool.” -LeVar Burton

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  • “I was horrible at science and math. I couldn’t pass a test to save my life! I’m surprised that it didn’t take me until I was 20 to graduate. That’s why my role is so cool – Grissom is the complete opposite of me.” -William Petersen

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  • “That’s the best way to feed the human mind. That’s how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.” -Wyclef Jean

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  • “Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.” -Maggie Gyllenhaal

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  • “It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?” -John Goodman

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  • “Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there’s a passion and there’s something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.” -Cameron Crowe

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  • “A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody’s head.” -Steve Vai

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  • “The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.” -Mike Gordon

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  • “You can’t not look cool with a crossbow.” -Norman Reedus

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  • “If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.” -Ben Nicholas

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  • “It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.” -Michael Bay

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  • “Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.” -Mike Lowry

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  • “It’s a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We’ve got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it’s here one minute gone the next.” -Kimbra

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  • “We’re gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old ’50’s B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.” -Jerry Only

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  • “It’s kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.” -Ron Livingston

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  • “I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there’s some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that’s really important to us, and music is all we’ve really got.” -Missy Elliot

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  • “I jumped off a cliff backwards for ‘I Am Number Four,’ which was pretty cool. I’d never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.” -Alex Pettyfer

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  • “We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that’s cool, people will listen to it. If we don’t, we would be selling people short.” -Andy Taylor

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  • “I don’t particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that’s cool, but I don’t do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.” -Jhonen Vasquez

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  • “I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn’t mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest…

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  • “It’s a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.” -Dawn Fraser

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  • “Sunday school don’t make you cool forever.” -Sly Stone

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  • “I don’t think a show’s ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.” -Donal Logue

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  • “But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I’d rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.” -Jonah Goldberg

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  • “Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super cool.” -Michael K. Williams

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  • “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

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  • “Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it’s burnt into the fabric of your culture.” -Alex Winter

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  • “The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn’t necessarily sit with them or why we would or what’s cool or not cool.” -Max Cannon

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  • “Labels don’t mean anything to me. I’m trying to play as passionately as I’m able to. If they want to call that cool, that’s fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.” -Lee Konitz

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  • “I’m pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don’t have is something like the iPod – but PC-based. I think that would be cool.” -Oren Peli

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  • “You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There’s something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.” -Dan Auerbach

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  • “The frustrating part of it is that you’re generally known for what you did last. I’ve had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn’t see unless you’re at a film festival or you’re into that kind of movie.” -Hayden Panettiere

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  • “For too long, our country’s version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.” -Bob Beauprez

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  • “David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late ’80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He’s a very cool, hip guy. This film, let’s face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he’d find it funny.” -Martin Short

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  • “And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool.” -Stone Gossard

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  • “If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.” -Adam Garcia

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  • “When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.” -Ken Jennings

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  • “I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it’s cool when I fix things around the house.” -Ronnie Dunn

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  • “I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it’s either cool or funny.” -Matthew Vaughn

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  • “They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.” -David R. Ellis

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  • “When you’re in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they’re so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.” -Luke Wilson

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  • “I’m always looking for cool stuff to do because that’s what we’re supposed to do, ya know?” -Joshua Homme

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  • “The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.” -Amos Lee

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  • “Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she’s a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She’s like your cool chill girlfriend, sister-friend. I’m just like everybody else.” -Melanie Fiona

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  • “I don’t need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.” -Jeremy London

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  • “THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.” -Ken Hensley

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  • “But I’m trying not to be cynical – I don’t want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It’s really amazing what’s happening to me.” -Shannyn Sossamon

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  • “Never judge someone by who he’s in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.” -Cynthia Heimel

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  • “And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.” -John Fogerty

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  • “President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They’re different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It’s a great merging of the party.” -Bill Richardson

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  • “Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there’s a lot of luck involved in that, you’re playing a different character.” -Zachary Levi

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  • “It’s cool to meet your idols. It’s a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.” -Meg White

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  • “Country’s hip it’s cool music.” -Ricky Skaggs

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  • “I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it’s cool to have strong and powerful pets.” -Tracy Morgan

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  • “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

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  • “I’m a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.” -Todd McFarlane

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  • “Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip – the thing to do.” -Bruce Jenner

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  • “I think when you’re winning, your uniforms are cool.” -Shaun Alexander

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  • “I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she’s very cool. She’s out there and she’s involved.” -Sandra Bernhard

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  • “It’s cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn’t sound too bad.” -Trisha Yearwood

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  • “Doing charity work is always cool. It’s always a good thing.” -Lee DeWyze

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  • “I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all…

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  • “In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It’s like you’re watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.” -Hoda Kotb

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  • “The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That’s what I think is cool.” -Jessica Szohr

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  • “Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I’m really grateful for it, I don’t believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?” -Tom Hardy

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  • “I’m not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.” -Justin Halpern

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  • “I won’t go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.” -Blair Underwood

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  • “I’ve worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.” -Brittany Snow

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  • “I have no control over people’s perceptions of me at all and that’s one of the things I decided very early on is that I can’t control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of…

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  • “Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it’s hard to be at the cutting edge of what’s cool and not do something that’s totally geeky.” -Darren Aronofsky

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  • “Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn’t normally be called upon in life.” -Jenna Fischer

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  • “I don’t think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it’s no longer a secret.” -Jim Coleman

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  • “I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven’t done the cool movies that they like. With ’24,’ I gained a lot of respect. ’24’ is now, it’s hip, it’s their generation.” -Ricky Schroder

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  • “Arizona is really cool but I couldn’t stay there for too long.” -Dar Williams

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  • “I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.” -Christopher Atkins

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  • “In Fargo, they say, well, that’s a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.” -Chuck Klosterman

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  • “They’re a different generation, those kids kids that are under the age of twelve. They’re not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They’re like, it’s cool and everything, but whatever. They’re just as impressed by YouTube.” -Frank Black

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  • “The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that’s not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That’s the reality of it.” -Jimmy Kimmel

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  • “Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn’t seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.” -James Purefoy

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  • “Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.” -Dave Van Ronk

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  • “Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I’m going to do that.” -Anthony Mackie

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  • “In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.” -Michael Connelly

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  • “In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.” -Chad Smith

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  • “I didn’t want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I’m not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.” -Colin Hanks

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  • “We want to do for ‘Hamlet’ what Baz Luhrmann did for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.” -Emile Hirsch

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  • “I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the ’80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I’m really embarrassed.” -Jordana Brewster

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  • “I was labeled at a young age – Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.” -Chris Evert

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  • “Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.” -Genevieve Gorder

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  • “For me, everything is cool.” -Paz Vega

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  • “People always come up to me now and say, ‘Watchmen’ is the best superhero movie ever made.’ I’m always saying ‘That’s super cool. That’s nice of you to say.’ But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.” -Zack Snyder

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  • “Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I’d like to study piano.” -Jackson Browne

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  • “The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.” -Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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  • “I’m just a cool type of guy who’s all about positives.” -Big Boi

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  • “I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.” -Victoria Jackson

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  • “The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It’s got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.” -James Denton

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  • “I have actor friends, but they’re not famous. I feel like if you’re an actor or – famous, you have to overly prove that you’re a normal, cool person.” -Amanda Bynes

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  • “I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.” -Eric McCormack

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  • “I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I’ve ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.”…

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  • “I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I’ve had quite a few people actually say that they’re going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me… the character. I think that’s pretty cool!” -Catherine Bell

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  • “Most people are really cool and I really don’t mind talking to them and answering their questions.” -Jimmy Carl Black

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  • “I just want to do cool stuff.” -Rob Corddry

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  • “I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.” -Edward Burns

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  • “We had incense and rock’n’roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.” -Tommy Hilfiger

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  • “I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.” -John Kricfalusi

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  • “I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that’s cool. But there’s no ‘perfect husband.’ We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?” -Nick Lachey

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  • “One interviewer asked me: ‘How do you feel that you’ve betrayed your father?’ That wasn’t really very cool.” -Dhani Harrison

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  • “It’s really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it’s cool.” -Taryn Manning

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  • “There’s kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don’t know exactly what that is. So, it’s hard for me to answer that question.” -Danny Elfman

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  • “Sometimes airport security people recognize me. I’ll go through the whole screening process and at the end they’ll go, ‘Hey, man, I really like your work.’ That’s so cool.” -Reggie Watts

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  • “My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.” -Aisha Tyler

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  • “I didn’t come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don’t want to be considered a cool actor – I want to be a great actor.” -Tom Sizemore

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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

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  • “In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they’re cool, they get respect.” -Danny McBride

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  • “When people meet me, many times they’re very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I’m not.” -Augusten Burroughs

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  • “For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.” -Suzanne Somers

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  • “It’s pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don’t have to. It’s totally different now to back in the day. Now you’re paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there’s some kind of…

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  • “Simon is cool. You know, it’s different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.” -Ruben Studdard

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  • “All I know is that I’ve ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that’s not cool anymore.” -Isla Fisher

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