James Cook Quotes

Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

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• The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Fall

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Page

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Know
  • Never
  • End

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Beginning

• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Imagination

• I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'

  

  John Benjamin Hickey
  • She
  • Remember
  • Night

• Our ills are worse than at their easeThese blameless happy souls suspect,They only study the disease,Alas, who live not to detect.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Study

• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • You
  • Never
  • Sex

• There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

  

  Kit Harington

• If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there

  

  T. H. White
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

  

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