James Cook Quotes
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I have selective hearing.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.
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I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
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My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
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I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.
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Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.
