James Cook Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.
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It's not in either my personal or business interest to be a highly visible person.
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I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
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Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
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I've never been cool.
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To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.
