Alastair Cook Quotes
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
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My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
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It’s easy to lose your reputation, it’s easy to lose your friends, to lose their confidence, than to regain it.
Garry Kasparov
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The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.
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I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.
