James Cook Quotes
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.
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I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
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I'm just afraid that I may not have the strength to do this job. After you leave me tonight, Jimmy, I am going to pray. I am going to pray that God will help me, that he will give me the strength and the guidance to do this job and to do it right. I hope that you will pray for me, too, Jimmy.
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The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.
