James Cook Quotes
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I never use that word, retire.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'
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I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.
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I'm definitely not a follower. This is our job. This is what we do. If you're not having fun here, you shouldn't be here.
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I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
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I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
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Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.
