James Cook Quotes
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
James Cook
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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.
Dana Brunetti
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Malcolm X
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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.
Ike Barinholtz
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
Takeru Kobayashi
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
Zach Anner
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
Pat Burns
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker
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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.
Ville Valo
HIM
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
Sam J. Jones
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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.
Ma Jian
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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.
Walt Mossberg
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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.
Veronica Roth
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the invention and freeness within a structure.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
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I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.
James Toback
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It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
James Cook
