David J. Cook Quotes
I am worth some study, if for no one else but myself. I hope that you feel likewise... even if only about yourself.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I never said I was a genius.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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A woman in the audience asked Barack Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked President Obama how he would deal with this sort of thing, and Obama said we cannot consider the joy of life in this situation. He said I would advise her to take a pain killer. That is the essence of the President of the United States.
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But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.
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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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I am worth some study, if for no one else but myself. I hope that you feel likewise... even if only about yourself.
