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The idea that one might use art for ‘instrumental’ reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it’s not a pill, that it shouldn’t be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to ‘cheer you up’ or to ‘make you a more empathetic person. – Alain de Botton

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can’t get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago. – Richard Simmons

Chicago fans cheer and boo who they want. They’re great fans whether they like me or not. They show you how they feel. I don’t like crowds that sit on their hands. – John Cena

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. – James Russell Lowell

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp. – Eric Christian Olsen

She knows I’m her biggest fan, I cheer for her louder than anybody. – Nick Lachey

I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all – I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that’s a really great thing. We’re kind of getting past the fact that they’re the punchline or that they’re the novelty. – Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Everyone’s unique; no one’s ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He’s capable of making a room happy with a few words. – Jon Voight

I’ve always fed off negativity and wanting people to hate me. That attitude really fueled me for my entire career. So being a guy that people like and want to cheer for is the weird part. – Dean Ambrose

The truth is, truly passionate media creators don’t get into the media business to make huge gains from spectacular unicorn exists. When it happens, we certainly all cheer (and perhaps secretly hope it happens to us). But the fact is, we make media because we don’t know what else to do with ourselves. It’s how we’re wired, so to speak. – John Battelle