James Cook Quotes
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
Carl Paladino -
I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
Eddie Albert -
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
Larry Craig -
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay -
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
P. J. O'Rourke
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I don't want to become known as just a body.
Taylor Lautner -
I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
Imelda May -
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Man Ray -
I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
Nate Berkus
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba -
CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.
Paige VanZant -
People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
Laila Ali -
Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.
Patrick Chan -
In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
Charlie Kaufman -
Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings.
T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings -
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
Pat Metheny -
Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.
Pete Hamill -
All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
Paris Hilton -
That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.
James Cook