James Cook Quotes

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

James Cook

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• I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Morning
  • Christmas
  • Week

• I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • War
  • Decision

• College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • College
  • Struggle
  • Debt

• I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Character
  • Pretty

• When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Idea
  • Young
  • Become

• My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Father
  • Faith

• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Passion
  • First
  • Unity

• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Experience
  • Problems

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • You
  • More
  • Build

• As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Comedy
  • Best
  • Awards

• I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Mistakes
  • Triumphs

• There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Book
  • History
  • Feeling

• The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Motivational

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that's when we will flourish in those areas.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Will

• I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • Always
  • Feel

• evidence without ideas is more valuable than ideas without evidence.

  

  Edith Caroline Rivett

• What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.

  

  Jack Vance
  • World
  • Men
  • Peace

• The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • America

• The secret to my success is persistence.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Success
  • Persistence

• All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

  

  James Cook
  • Distance
  • Excuse
  • Unemployment