James Cook Quotes
The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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While most become star struck by A-list actors, you'll only see me in awe of leaders effecting change. Politician and diplomat Madeleine Albright, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. These are my heroes. These are my celebrities.
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My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.
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The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.
