James Cook Quotes
Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.
James Cook
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I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
Lana Parrilla
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
Adam Grant
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot
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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
Victor Borge
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I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.
Neil Sedaka
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Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.
Mary Ann Mobley
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Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.
David S. Goyer
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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
Djuna Barnes
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Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
Barbara Mikulski
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You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
Alfred Jarry
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When a novelist has “something to say,” they mean a message. It has political connotations, or a religious message, or a moral prescription. It means “commitment,” as used by Sartre and other fellow-travelers. They are saying that the writer has a world view, a sort of truth that he wishes to communicate, and that his writing has an ulterior significance. I am against this.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
