Claire Cook Quotes
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that’s not very cool. It’s not just selfish, it’s kinda sick and unhealthy.
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
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Power may be defined as the production of intended effects.
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Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
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A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.
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Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
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If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.
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If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.
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There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.
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I don't have time to date.
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The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.
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I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.
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For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.
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Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
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I had to get healthy for a period in my life, so I learned a lot about food and diet.
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'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Slowly the ivy on the stones Becomes the stones. Women become The cities, children become the fields And men in waves become the sea.
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Been tumbled smooth by waves
