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James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James Fenimore Cooper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851

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Men Law Opinion Tyranny Vice Masses

I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.

Andy Milonakis

Internet You Know Talk Late-Night

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Room Wear Writers

'Rapper's Delight' came from the TV entertainment show 'Good Times,' but when the times called for a shift in the narrative, artists answered, covering brutal truths in their rhymes that were uncomfortable for society to confront.

Steve Stoute

Good Good Times Society Uncomfortable

I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.

Trent Reznor

Better Enough You Out Aspire Depth

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

Tom Hollander

Family Father Jewish His Catholicism

I always try to do a bit more than I am asked.

Roberto Firmino

I Am Try More Always Than Am

People don't understand being a child star is very hard because first off, to be a child star, you have to be very unique. These kids are talented to be able to do it at such a young age. At the same time, you go through the pressures of bullying and a lot of people not understanding.

Romeo Miller

Age Time Bullying Child People You

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Mason Cooley

Naive Cynicism Disappointments Full

I would say to you, have faith in yourself - believe in what you are doing, and, most important, be a person of integrity. It is totally up to you, and no one else, how your life evolves.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Life Integrity Faith Yourself Doing

In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.

Diego Costa

Son Football Gift You First Him

If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage of you in a heartbeat. It takes a long time to get back in fighting form.

Douglas Conant

Time Fighting Long You Back Will

I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

Bronson Pinchot

Hair Looking Easy Body Gym Young