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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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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Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
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She Clinton has a terrible record as secretary of state. I mean, she's literally created ISIS. If you look at her, between her and Obama, they're the ones - we have this big ISIS problem they created with their bad policies and their bad thinking.
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Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
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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.
