James Cook Quotes
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The American dream is about freedom.
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It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
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Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
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I grew up with three sisters, so I got used to being around them and all of their worries about fashion and what they are wearing.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Obviously, given the objective that we have, what I would hope is that people would be able to see that actually we had reduced the numbers of people, the net number of people, coming into the country. People would, presumably, see that, but it's difficult to say how.
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Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.
