James Cook Quotes
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
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Nature hates calculators.
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I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you... and girls love Tom Ford.
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Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.
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I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.
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The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
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I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.
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When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.
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During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.
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If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.
Colson Whitehead -
It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
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I wasn't thrilled about 'The Sound Of Music' - not the movie itself but my role in it. Captain Von Trapp was a bore, and they tried to help by giving it a bit more cynicism, but it wasn't my favourite role. I enjoyed the music, and I loved Julie Andrews.
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I love my work - it's what I know how to do best.
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Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
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We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.
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It was the final act of a North Vietnamese soldier who was killed. Before he died he took a hand grenade and held it against the stock of his weapon. Then he had gotten on his knees and bent over double. If anybody tried to get his weapon they were going to activate that hand grenade. When I saw the dedication of those two Vietnamese with their hand grenades, I said to myself: We are up against an enemy who is going to make this a very long year.
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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.
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Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.
