James Cook Quotes
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.
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I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
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My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.
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In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
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There are two religions in earth, which have distinct enmity against all other religions. These two are Christianity and Islam. They are not just satisfied with observing their own religions, but are determined to destroy all other religions. That’s why the only way to make peace with them is to embrace their religions.'
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Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.
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Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.
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The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestations of an Eternal Beauteous One.
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Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
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I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.
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I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.
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To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.