James Cook Quotes

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

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• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Ending

• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Focus
  • Positive
  • Choose

• Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • God
  • Want
  • Badly

• You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Think
  • Me
  • Journalism

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • Now
  • Standards

• I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Small

• I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Why
  • Simple

• When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Hope
  • Soul

• With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Want
  • Said

• America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Every day, you're only as good as your last show.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Rich
  • Wealth

• When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Night
  • Wind
  • Sky

• Follow me,” Myrnin said. “And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Movie
  • High
  • Quality

• The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Control
  • Desire
  • Slavery

• I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.

  

  Minka Kelly
  • Challenges
  • Western
  • Riding

• And, having killed him (Abhimanyu), your people danced round his dead body like savage hunters exulting over their prey. All good men in the army were grieved and tears rolled from their eyes. Even the birds of prey, that circled overhead making noises seemed to cry 'Not thus! Not thus!

  

  C. Rajagopalachari
  • People
  • Killed
  • Danced

• Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

  

  Ace Antonio Hall
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Medicine

• When Captain Moresby landed on New Guinea, a medicine-man exorcised the evil spirit in him by magical jugglery with palm leaves and by playing a kind of leapfrog.

  

  Elsie Clews Parsons
  • Medicine
  • Landed
  • Leapfrog

• With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

  

  James Cook
  • Medicine
  • Treatment
  • Trick