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Cool means whatever you decide it means.

This set pushes back against borrowed definitions of cool, arguing instead for setting your own standard rather than following magazines or TV. It also touches on how simple it's become to jump into a new scene. Related reading in Chill Quotes.

I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.

Quotes by Olivier Theyskens

When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

Quotes by Olivier Theyskens

You have to ration your creativity over all your songs. You write a really cool pop song then you have to write a heavy song to balance out, then you need to think about singles.

Quotes by Oliver Sykes

I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them...

Quotes by Olivia Holt

I've been a fan of all things Marvel since I was a kid, so now, working with the company and playing a superhero on screen is pretty cool.

Quotes by Olivia Holt

When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

Quotes by Oliver Reed

I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'

Quotes by Olga Fonda

Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

Quotes by Olga Kurylenko

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Quotes by Norman Cousins

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

Quotes by Norah Jones

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me...

Quotes by Norah Jones

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Quotes by Nora Ephron

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

Quotes by Noel Gallagher

Nobody gets into comedy because they feel like they're cool and funny. If they do, they're megalomaniacs.

Quotes by Noel Wells

Like a lot of young women, I went through an entire period where I hated female characters - I didn't want to read about them! I thought I was going to be the cool girl who was not like other...

Quotes by Noelle Stevenson

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

Quotes by Nolan Bushnell

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.'

Quotes by Nolan Bushnell

A cameo in 'Doctor Who' would be kind of cool to have on my filmography.

Quotes by Noah Wyle

I saw Jennifer Batten do a cool guitar solo before I ever saw any other girl do a cool guitar solo.

Quotes by Nita Strauss

All of these really strong females making names for themselves in what were traditionally male-dominated spaces. And I'm not usually one to get too hung up on the male-vs.-female side of things, but it is interesting to see the dynamic...

Quotes by Nita Strauss

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Frequently Asked Questions

What different ideas about 'cool' appear in these quotes?
They range from defining cool for yourself rather than following others, to calling something pretty cool, to appreciating the low barrier to entry in enthusiast press, to comparing Hollywood's social labels to a high-school caste system.
Is there a quote about defining 'cool' for yourself?
Yes. One quote says their definition of cool is "finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you." For more on this idea, see Cool People quotes.
Is there a quote calling something 'pretty cool'?
Yes - one speaker simply says, "Monster Hearts is pretty cool!" For more short, enthusiastic quotes, browse Chill quotes.
Is there a quote about enthusiast press?
Yes. One quote calls the low barrier to entry "A cool thing about enthusiast press," noting that anyone can decide to start publishing immediately. For more on this theme, see Cooler quotes.
Is there a quote comparing Hollywood to a high school caste system?
Yes - one quote describes Hollywood as "like a really sad, grown up version of high school" where people get labeled cool, not cool, jock, bombshell, or quirky, comparing it to "a caste system." For more on social status, see Status quotes.

Another quote compares Hollywood to a rigid high school caste system, sorting people into labels whether they fit or not. Continue with Cool People Quotes or Cooler Quotes.