James Cook Quotes

Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

James Cook

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• Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • Country
  • Pretty

• I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Want
  • Smoking
  • Smoke

• The Joker was Batman's nemesis, but-ironically-his archenemy was Superman, since Superman made Batman entirely mortal and generally nonessential. Nobody likes to admit this, but Batman fucking hated Superman; Superman is the reason Batman became an alcoholic.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Superman
  • Batman
  • Joker

• But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Past

• It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • People
  • Great
  • Bored

• Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Environment

• Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Job
  • Universe

• Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.

  

  Clyde Edgerton
  • World
  • Men
  • Children

• Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

  

  Berry Gordy
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

  

  Lena Headey
  • Bold

• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

  

  John Keats
  • Great
  • Death
  • Sea

• The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

  

  Ken Mehlman
  • War
  • House

• I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Live
  • Sleep
  • Broken

• Cindy (Chris Farley): That reminds me, I have a joke: I heard Michael Jackson went shopping at K-Mart because there was a sale! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!Christy (Spade): You messed it up, dumbbell! He went shopping at K-Mart because he heard little boys' pants were half off.

  

  David Spade
  • Up
  • Shopping

• She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second, and when I saw her smile I wondered what it would be like to make her smile. I thought... I thought it would be like the discovery of smiling.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Light
  • Deep
  • Smile

• I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Heart
  • Hunting
  • Twilight

• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Imagination
  • Invisible
  • Immaterial

• When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Identity
  • Betrayal

• If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Hand

• I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

  

  William Whipple
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Experience

• Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

  

  James Cook
  • Betrayal
  • Determines
  • Self-Interest