“We are biologically designed to both need and want a better half for p...” — Brett Cooper Quote

“We are biologically designed to both need and want a better half for protection, for procreation, and for community. Wanting such is not oppressive, backwards, or wrong. Rather, acknowledging such is natural.”

“When I was in college, my mom would tell me that if I wanted to buy a house someday, I couldn't spend all my money on Starbucks. I have a love-hate relationship with this statement.”

“Young skin does not need retinol or the heavy duty chemical products that my generation is slathering on their skin morning, noon, and night.”

“If your standards include mutual respect, shared values, and common ground in a relationship, keep them high.”

“I tend to think Gen Z looks older because of our diet and the terrible processed foods we put in our bodies every single day.”

“Basically, pageants have turned to glorifying being obese and being a man.”

“My humour comes from acknowledging different communities. That's what my fans are responding to - they know that I 'get it.' I understand them. I take the time to understand them. I get more complaints from people when I don't talk about them. I've had guys come up to me after a show and go, 'You didn't talk about Latvians!'”

“Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.”

“So much I have found my contemporaries... really do sort of focus on getting to 'yes' - 'yes, I can do that,' 'yes, I can help you with this,' 'yes, I can take on this additional assignment.' We say 'yes' so much without acknowledging what all of ourselves that we're giving.”

“Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.”

“What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.”