James Cook:
CLASS OF 1968
Southern University Lab SchoolClass of 1968
Baton rouge, LA
Catholic High SchoolClass of 1968
Baton rouge, LA
James's Story
James is from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. James's schools include Southern University Lab School. James later attended Tulane University.
Music James likes includes Fans of John Coltrane, James Brown, Latin jazz. Books James likes include Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Invisible Man, Love in the Time of Cholera. Movies James likes include Memento, Cool Hand Luke, A Raisin in the Sun. TV shows James likes include Def Jam, HBO, Treme.
One of James's favorite quotes is:""What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society. If a society succeeds in this, that society is about to perish. The obligation of anyone who thinks of himself as responsible is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it â at no matter what risk. This is the only hope society has. This is the only way societies change".
--James Baldwin
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"--Einstein
"Don't tell me what you can't do....tell me what you can do"..Tulane President Scott Cowan after Katrina disaster.
Don't Get Stuck on Stupid! Gen. Russel Honore
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr.
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong. Muhammad Ali
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
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ver let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher
Cool Hand Luke:
"What we've got here is ...failure to communicate" Warden
"I wish you wouldn't be so good to me Captain"--Luke
Raisin in the Sun
"Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most, when he's done good and made everything easy for everybody. Oh no, no, that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and he can't believe in himself cause the world done whipped him so. When you start measuring somebody child, measure him right, measure him right. You make sure you've taken into account the hills and the valleys he's come through to get to wherever he is." Lena Younger--matriarch
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
Some days you're the dog - some days you're the hydrant. Anonymous
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern".
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