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 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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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 never liked you, and I always will.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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The strong must protect the sweet.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.
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Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
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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.
