James Cook Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
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I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
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The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.
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And the imperialists? Will they sit with their arms crossed? No! The system they practice is the cause of the evils from which we are suffering, but they will try to obscure the facts with spurious allegations, of which they are masters.
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...even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.
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We are coerced into faith by our suffering.
