Joseph Cook Quotes
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.
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I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.
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I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
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The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
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Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
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You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
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I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.
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The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.
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This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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It was one of the great fen sunsets, flaming across the sky from horizon to horizon, burning up the earth beneath it to nothingness. But it could not subdue the Cathedral. Isaac was looking straight up at the three great towers and the flaming clouds were streaming out from them like banners. Yet there was no wind, and no movement in the sky except just above the Rollo tower where two small white clouds were in gentle flight. They soared and sank again, infinitely graceful and lovely, the golden light touching their wings and breasts. Then they soared once more and were lost in the light. They were two white swans.
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Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.
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Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
