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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Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.
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Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it's almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.
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That's when I got my guard down. He was okay with going to my office and meeting people and being seen. That's how he got me.
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Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.
