James Cook Quotes

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

James Cook

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• When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

  

  Odette Annable
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Want
  • Problems
  • Terrorism

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • People
  • Care
  • Foundation

• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Boy

• Polite conversation is rarely either.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Communication
  • Either

• You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Kids
  • American
  • You

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Reading

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thought

• I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Important
  • War
  • Government

• Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mother

• I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Work
  • Education
  • Refugees

• Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.

  

  Laird Barron
  • God
  • Mom
  • Fire

• We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Easy

• If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Think
  • You
  • Balance

• At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Live
  • Age
  • Best

• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Mind
  • College

• All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Words

• One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

  

  Jeremy Paxman
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Leaving

• Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

  

  James Cook
  • Adversity
  • Fruit
  • Seeds