Claire Cook Quotes
Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.
