James Cook Quotes

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

James Cook

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• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

  

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• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

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• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  

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• There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.

  

  Patrick Warburton
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• Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

  

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• The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

  

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• People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.

  

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• Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.

  

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• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

  

  Iain Banks
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• After 'Boy Meets World' ended, I didn't know if I was going to be lucky enough to work on a show with as many talented people and feel such a family comradery.

  

  Danielle Fishel
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• I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.

  

  Jami Attenberg
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• I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you're so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?

  

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• The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

  

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• It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

  

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• Churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

  

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• Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

  

  Judith Butler
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• The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
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  • Result

• If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

  

  James Cook
  • Result
  • Insanity
  • Expecting