Uncool Quotes

• Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Being Pretty

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• Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

  Criss Jami

  Skills, Looks, Fool

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Motivational, World, Obscure

  "Fictional character: Lester Bangs". "Almost Famous", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Blessed are the uncool; for they shall be happy without needing the approval of others.

  Rick Warren

  Blessed, Approval Of Others, Approval

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 29, 2011

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• Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

  Sol LeWitt

  Worry

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Uncool is a cool resting place. The pressure's off me.

  Greg Behrendt

  Pressure

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• I don't like walking around with people thinking I'm doing uncool s--, because there's nothing I'm doing that's uncool. It's all innovative. You just might not understand it yet. But it's cool. Family is super cool. Going home to one girl every night is super cool. Just going home and getting on the floor and playing with your child is super cool. Not wearing a red leather jacket, and just looking like a dad and s--, is like super cool. Having someone that I can call Mom again. That s-- is super cool.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Mom, Children

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• I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.

  Michael Kirby

  Love, Court Judges, Things In Life

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• The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.

  Greg Gutfeld

  School, Kids, World

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.7, Crown Forum

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• Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I was well aware of that when I heard they were remaking 'Total Recall.' My first reaction was: 'Ewww, really okay?' And the director said you should really look at it, the script is good. I had already done a remake. I had just finished 'Fright Night.' When I heard about that being remade, I had a whole ego thing... remake?. 'That is so uncool! I loved the original, I can't possibly do that.

  Colin Farrell

  Night, Ego, Directors

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.

  Ryan Adams

  Tattoo, Badass, Mean

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

  Steve Coogan

  Fun, Giving, Long

  Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. February 11, 2007.

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• It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Song, Play, People

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• You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

  Sol LeWitt

  Worry, Anxiety, Secret

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• This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Jesus, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.

  Alber Elbaz

  Party, Mean, Soul

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• I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

  Emun Elliott

  Guitar, Play, Listening

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• I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them.

  Alasdair MacLean

  Secret, World, Littles

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

  David Pajo

  Guitar, Punk, Grunge

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.

  Jud Wilhite

  Pain, Struggle, Yuppies

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• It's hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an English and American dialect, so flowery and oratorical that it almost sounds theatrical. It would be uncool today, no one would ever speak that way.

  Jay Roach

  Voice, Age, Sound

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.

  Jack Kirby

  Son, Sight, Being Cool

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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• It's weird for me to come from the 80s when metal was so uncool and see how far it has come.

  Mike Scheidt

  Metals, 80s

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

  Kathleen Hanna

  People, Punk, Scene

  "The Riot Act". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

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