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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.

The interesting thing about my career is for years I was trying to do that thing of getting in shape and looking cool - I would look at myself in camera angles and think how my chin looked the best...

Quotes by David Harbour

I was neeeever a cool kid.

Quotes by David Furnish

Beanbags and softball matches and a cool Twitter handle doesn't make young people want to work at your office.

Quotes by David Droga

I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel.

Quotes by David E. Sanger

I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to...

Quotes by David Cross

What turns teenagers on more than the Internet these days? If you can get a language out there, the youngsters are much more likely to think it's cool.

Quotes by David Crystal

I feel like I've gotten so lucky and gotten to do such cool things with such cool folks. It's really great. You definitely want that momentum to keep going, for sure.

Quotes by David Costabile

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not...

Quotes by David Coverdale

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

Quotes by David Cassidy

I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time,...

Quotes by David Blaine

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been...

Quotes by David Baldacci

I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a wall instead of a window. I thought it was kind of a cool idea.

Quotes by David Allee

A script is so word-heavy, after trying to communicate so much verbally, I think you need a different outlet to give the verbal centre of your brain a chance to cool off.

Quotes by David Alpay

I'm driven to get to goals as fast as possible. It frustrates people in my lab who have something they think is cool, but if it doesn't move us forward, I don't want to do it.

Quotes by David Andrew Sinclair

If not music, I think it would be pretty cool to be an ear, nose and throat doctor.

Quotes by David Archuleta

My mom is just someone who's easy to talk to and hang with. My sister, it's always cool to be able to help her out with things. My brother is fun when we're just joking and messing around. And my...

Quotes by David Archuleta

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're...

Quotes by David Archuleta

It's cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.

Quotes by David Archuleta

Everybody is saying, 'ESPN is not cool, no one is paying attention to ESPN, they're all paying attention to the Barstools of the world.' Why? Because we're authentic.

Quotes by Dave Portnoy

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Quotes by Dave Van Ronk

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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.