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• My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.

  Sean Mackin

  Mom, Art, Growing Up

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• Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Hurt, Jobs, Nursing

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.82, Penguin

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• I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

  Brett Ratner

  Mean, Kids, White

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am...because...you know...I don't really want to change it.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Who I Am, Trying

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• I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. I was not afraid to be musical. That was not something that I thought was uncool.

  Miles Teller

  Mom, Home, Play

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.

  Torquil Campbell

  Beautiful, Fate, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.

  Steve Erickson

  Emotional, Thinking, Nerves

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

  Brian Eno

  Ideas, Consciousness, Collectives

  "The death of uncool". www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. November 25, 2009.

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• I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

  Grimes

  Rights, Issues, Environmental

  "Sexism In Music Targeted By Female Singer Grimes In New Blog Post". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

  Denis Leary

  Kids, Bigger And Better, Pay

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• I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Black And White, Men, Saws

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

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• Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.

  Tana French

  Profound, Mind, Encounters

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• Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Cheer, Rivers

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Want, Knows, Spells

  MaryJanice Davidson (2011). “Undead and Undermined: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.86, Penguin

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• Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the dashboard. "We're supposed to be a diversion," Jonah said. "Got to make an entrance. Can't do that in a minivan, Giganto Boy. Can't do much in a minivan except look about as uncool as it gets." "Hey! My dad drives a minivan." "Snap.

  Judy Blundell

  Dad, Boys, Knees

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• You guys are weird," Tori said. Simon sat on the crate beside me. "That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Guy, Popularity, Said

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.110, Penguin Group

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• The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

  Nolan Bushnell

  Children, Ideas, Parent

  "The Player" by Ethan Watters, www.wired.com. January 10, 2005.

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• Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Patriotic, Thinking, Opposites

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• One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.

  Lauren Conrad

  People, Way, Entertainment

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• Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.

  Claudia Shear

  Alcohol, Choices, Drug

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• As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

  Mark Consuelos

  Father, Kids, Eye

  "Mark Consuelos Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, How He Got Involved with the Show, Its Dark Subject Matter and Working on the Asylum Set". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you’ve made a billion dollars, you’ve probably become uncool.

  Sean Parker

  Thinking, Dollars, Revolutionary

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• But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

  Neil Strauss

  Guidance, Enough, Habit

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Optimistic, Fiction

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• The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

  Don Johnson

  Thinking, Directors, Too Much

  "Rascal". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 23, 2014.

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