If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.
Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.
My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.
People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.
I have these ideas that people go 'Oh, that's cool. I'd pay to see it, but I'm not gonna give you $25 million.'
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
I like to stay cool and comfortable. If I'm going out, then I might wear a nice sundress or skirt to keep from getting too hot.
Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.
Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.
