James Cook Quotes
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.
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The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
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To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
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There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.
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A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.
