James Cook Quotes
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.
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I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.
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The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
