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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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
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We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.
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Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.
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We are coerced into faith by our suffering.
