James Cook Quotes
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I'm kind of an antsy person.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
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I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.
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The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
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Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.
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Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.
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Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.
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It doesn't mean we're going to end camp -- it's the end of bed-check.
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Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.
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I'd most likely be a helicopter pilot, or I'd own a really cool surf hotel somewhere on a beach.
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I'm somebody who works within Cambodia, with Cambodians. I work alongside the artists and society to work from within, so that is the focus, and from that I hope everybody who believes in democracy, in certain freedoms, will get louder, will grow their voices.
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Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.
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Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
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We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.
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We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
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Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.
