Uncool Quotes

• Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Being Pretty

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• Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

  Criss Jami

  Skills, Looks, Fool

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Motivational, World, Obscure

  "Fictional character: Lester Bangs". "Almost Famous", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Uncool is a cool resting place. The pressure's off me.

  Greg Behrendt

  Pressure

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• I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.

  Michael Kirby

  Love, Court Judges, Things In Life

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• I don't like walking around with people thinking I'm doing uncool s--, because there's nothing I'm doing that's uncool. It's all innovative. You just might not understand it yet. But it's cool. Family is super cool. Going home to one girl every night is super cool. Just going home and getting on the floor and playing with your child is super cool. Not wearing a red leather jacket, and just looking like a dad and s--, is like super cool. Having someone that I can call Mom again. That s-- is super cool.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Mom, Children

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• Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

  Sol LeWitt

  Worry

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• I was well aware of that when I heard they were remaking 'Total Recall.' My first reaction was: 'Ewww, really okay?' And the director said you should really look at it, the script is good. I had already done a remake. I had just finished 'Fright Night.' When I heard about that being remade, I had a whole ego thing... remake?. 'That is so uncool! I loved the original, I can't possibly do that.

  Colin Farrell

  Night, Ego, Directors

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Blessed are the uncool; for they shall be happy without needing the approval of others.

  Rick Warren

  Blessed, Approval Of Others, Approval

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 29, 2011

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• The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.

  Greg Gutfeld

  School, Kids, World

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.7, Crown Forum

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• But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

  Neil Strauss

  Guidance, Enough, Habit

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

  Brian Eno

  Ideas, Consciousness, Collectives

  "The death of uncool". www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. November 25, 2009.

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• I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them.

  Alasdair MacLean

  Secret, World, Littles

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

  Sol LeWitt

  Worry, Anxiety, Secret

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• A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

  Steve Coogan

  Fun, Giving, Long

  Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. February 11, 2007.

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• I used to have more meltdowns backstage than I do [now].... It's not that it was ever cool, but right now, it just seems very uncool to have a meltdown. I'm not saying I'll never have one! But I've learnt to stop it just before it happens.

  Guido Palau

  Meltdowns, Used, Right Now

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

  Josh Groban

  Song, Boys, Talent

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• Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Patriotic, Thinking, Opposites

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• Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

  Denis Leary

  Kids, Bigger And Better, Pay

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• Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the dashboard. "We're supposed to be a diversion," Jonah said. "Got to make an entrance. Can't do that in a minivan, Giganto Boy. Can't do much in a minivan except look about as uncool as it gets." "Hey! My dad drives a minivan." "Snap.

  Judy Blundell

  Dad, Boys, Knees

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• Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.

  Tana French

  Profound, Mind, Encounters

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• Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Cheer, Rivers

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Want, Knows, Spells

  MaryJanice Davidson (2011). “Undead and Undermined: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.86, Penguin

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• One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.

  Lauren Conrad

  People, Way, Entertainment

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