Joseph Cook Quotes
A monarchy is like a man-of-war - bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
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He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
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Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
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A monarchy is like a man-of-war - bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.
