James Cook Quotes
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.
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There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.
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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.
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Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.
