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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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.
