Rachel Cohn Quotes
We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.
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Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.
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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.
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When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.
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We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.
