David Cohen Quotes
In Boulder entrepreneurship circles, there is a genuine desire to see others succeed and a general belief that karma matters. There's a sense that together we're building something here, and that we're all a meaningful part of it.
Quotes to Explore
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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I am a contrarian.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.
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I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places.
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In Boulder entrepreneurship circles, there is a genuine desire to see others succeed and a general belief that karma matters. There's a sense that together we're building something here, and that we're all a meaningful part of it.
