Jeffery A. Cook Quotes
Heaven wants to engulf us here and now. It is chasing us, enlivening us, beginning to grow right here in our midst. It’s as though the renewal of all things cannot wait to get started. It is peaking its head in wherever it can.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action.
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If they come prying they can leave curious.
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What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.
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Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like 'aaaaa.... beeeee.... ceeee.' She's thinking you're from fuckin' Europe or somethin: 'OH GOD, WHERE'D YOU LEARN THAT, OHHH,' and you're going 'A, B, C, D, E, F, G'.
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To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
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It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else.
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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.
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Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.
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To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.
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Heaven wants to engulf us here and now. It is chasing us, enlivening us, beginning to grow right here in our midst. It’s as though the renewal of all things cannot wait to get started. It is peaking its head in wherever it can.
