Paul Cook Quotes
I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.
Quotes to Explore
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
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I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.
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I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.
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The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!
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I have anxiety.
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After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.
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I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.
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Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.
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Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.
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I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.
