Rachel Cohn Quotes
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
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For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.
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A company has to be like that person who turns his cuffs up a different way, who smokes a certain brand of cigarette, who wears an obscure vintage watch.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
