James Cook Quotes
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
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I make a habit of asking myself, 'Is there purpose to this meeting or conversation? Do I want to build a relationship with this person or company? Is there purpose behind this meeting that aligns with my life and business strategy?' If the answer is 'No,' then I pass every time.
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Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
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Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.
