James Cook Quotes
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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.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.
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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.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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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.
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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.
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When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
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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.
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I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
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Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.
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Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.
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A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation. He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribed in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.
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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.
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With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.
