David Cook Quotes
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.
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When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.
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That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.
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It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world
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I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.
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Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.
