James Cook Quotes
To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.
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You start to compete with yourself when your catalog gets bigger and bigger... I mean, everybody wants the next 'Bless the Broken Road,' but you don't write those every day, so it's difficult.
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I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.
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To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
