James Cook Quotes
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response.
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This is our fucking city! And nobody is gonna dictate our freedom. Stay Strong! (After the Boston Marathon Bombings)
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Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
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Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
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I used to hate playing Seattle shows.
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Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
