James Cook Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.
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Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn’t be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.
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If this government wants to be fair dinkum, then it must stop kowtowing to financial markets, international organisations, world bankers, investment companies and big business people. The Howard government must become visionary and be prepared to act, even at the risk of making mistakes.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.
