Scott Cook Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Values are more important than money.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
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I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.
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Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.
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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
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The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.
