James Cook Quotes
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
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People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
