Being Cool Quotes - Page 4

• Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.

  Ray Davies

  Fashion, Art, Media

  Song: Young Conservatives

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• I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

  Joel Plaskett

  Canada, Touring, Diminish

  Source: www.coltoneddy.com

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• Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

  R. Kelly

  Guy, Singing, Trying

  "R. Kelly and Phoenix". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2013.

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• This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

  Terry Pratchett

  Calling, Said, Tracy

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• I don't think a comedian should even be concerned with being cool or sexy, as soon as you do, you aren't a comedian any more. Looks are still the most important thing for women when it comes to meeting a partner. And that's fair enough, but a sense of humour is really important too. For starters, it's a great indicator of whether you are going to get on. If the first time you go on a date you don't find each other funny, there's a fundamental problem.

  Ricky Gervais

  Sexy, Thinking, Comedian

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• A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Virginia, Orange

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• I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.

  Peter Cameron

  Childhood, Adults, World

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• Me, I always wanted frost power.” “Frost power?” “Yeah.” Seth gestured dramatically toward my coffee table. “If we’re talking superhero abilities. If I had frost power, I could wave my hand, and suddenly that whole thing would be covered in ice.” “Not frost?” “Same difference.” “How would frost and/or ice power help you fight crime?” “Well, I don’t know that it would. But it’d be cool.

  Richelle Mead

  Coffee, Fighting, Hands

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• You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Hair, Facts, Losing

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

  Richelle Mead

  Stars, Fire, Skeletons

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.156, Penguin

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• I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophical, Sheep, Enlightenment

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.22, Princeton University Press

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• How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

  Christian Bale

  Movie, Fun, Robots

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• Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Memories, Past, Boredom

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.456, A&C Black

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• It'd be cool if God gave everyone a Do Over Day and you could yell "Do Over!" and the day would start new.

  Simone Elkeles

  Ifs

  "Perfect Chemistry". Book by Simone Elkeles, December 23, 2008.

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• He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.

  Jandy Nelson

  Crazy, Thinking, Fog

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.54, Penguin

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• There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.

  Christian Bale

  Stars, Character, Goal

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• You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

  Wiz Khalifa

  White, Black, Certain

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• The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

  Solomon Burke

  Grace, Secret, Working It

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• It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Ideas, Fake

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• You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

  Noel Gallagher

  Strong, Love You, Cynical

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• In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.

  Grimes

  Cities, America, Vancouver

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• Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

  Heidi Klum

  Climbing, Want, Would Be

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• I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Character, Games, Able

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• I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.

  Elon Musk

  Kids, Responsibility, Space

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.

  Tom Peters

  Numbers, Excellence, Titles

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