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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 guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.

Quotes by Jerry Hall

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I...

Quotes by Jerry Doyle

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before...

Quotes by Jerry Doyle

When you have kids, you just love them. It's similar to when you're in love with someone. You just think they are so cool and want to be around them all the time, but what if she starts being embarrassed...

Quotes by Jeremy Sisto

I don't go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say 'Just have one drink, JD.' I say 'What's the point?' I'll go to a club and have a Red Bull, get my buzz. And the next day I...

Quotes by Jermain Defoe

Black Panther is a cool superhero and all, but let's be honest: He doesn't quite have the legs to prop up a blockbuster on his own.

Quotes by Jermaine Fowler

I stand for a Germany that is more colorful, cool, and optimistic about the future.

Quotes by Jerome Boateng

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

Quotes by Jeremy London

I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.

Quotes by Jeremy Scott

'Galaxy Quest' was cool to work on. When I first signed on, I really didn't know anything about it. I read the script, which I though was cool, but it wasn't until I saw the designs for the CG stuff...

Quotes by Jeremy Howard

In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!

Quotes by Jenson Button

I love Elizabeth Hurley. I have met her on a few occasions and was stunned by her beauty and her attitude. Very cool and easy going.

Quotes by Jenny Packham

I hated the '80s for years, and now I look back and think, actually, there was something really cool about it.

Quotes by Jenny Packham

Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

Quotes by Jens Lekman

Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them,...

Quotes by Jennifer Damiano

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

Quotes by Jennifer Damiano

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

Quotes by Jennifer A. Nielsen

I was living in Florida working as a model and got my first acting job there in the movie 'Wild Things.' I thought it was sort of cool and decided to do some training.

Quotes by Jennifer Bini Taylor

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Quotes by Jenna Elfman

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

Quotes by Jenna Fischer

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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.