Claire Cook Quotes
Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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There's nothing wrong with being yourself.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears.
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I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a person.
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If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.
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If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
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Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal.
