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

  Greg Behrendt

  Pressure

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.

  Ryan Adams

  Tattoo, Badass, Mean

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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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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• If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.

  Alber Elbaz

  Party, Mean, Soul

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• I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

  Emun Elliott

  Guitar, Play, Listening

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• I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance.

  Tim McGraw

  Fathers Day, Daughter, Dad

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• Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Important, Finals

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.172, Random House

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• I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, or afraid of showing that they care because it's uncool. It's uncool to have passion. It's so much easier to lose when you've shown everyone how much you don't care if you win or lose. It's much harder to lose when you show that you care, but, you'll never win, unless you also stand to lose. Don't be afraid of your passion.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Hard Work, Passion, Caring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Jesus, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Self, Racism, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.

  Van Morrison

  Cat, Ruins, Jazz

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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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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• The idea was put to me, and my initial reaction was of slight sort of - I was slightly appalled, really, because in the U.K., we don't - we think it's all a bit vulgar, you know, doing Christmas or cashing in on Christmas. And there's a word we have for it, which is naff. And it's not exactly uncool. It really sort of means kind of vulgar and a bit - not very stylish.

  Nick Lowe

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Morning, Growing Up, Father

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.

  Gene Weingarten

  Rhyming, Firsts, Idiot

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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