James Cook Quotes
All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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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.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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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.'
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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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.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There's no such thing as a studio edit. It's the director's cut, period.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane
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My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.
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I was six when the war started, ten when the Armistice ended the slaughter. The best of our horses had gone to pull guns, and the pony that I loved so much had been taken to pull a wagon of war. Thus early I learned of man’s inhumanity to man.
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All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.
