James Cook Quotes
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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When you're in survival mode, you numb yourself.
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I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
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It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
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Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
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Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.
