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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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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Look here: "Mo' money, mo' problems," my ass.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.
