David Cohen Quotes
When fundraising, your network is critical. Leveraging it early and often is the key. Don't make the mistake of waiting until you need money to engage sources of capital.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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Most men are fragile.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I can only control what I can control.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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For me, the amazing thing was entering into this amazing world of 'Sesame Street.' We'd be in the kids' room, and there was a door into the soundstage that said '1-2-3 Open Sesame.' I remember pushing that door open and going into this incredible magical world of make-believe. In one episode, I was playing football with Joe Namath.
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I don't want any of my records to sound like one style throughout. That's why I choose different grooves and songs: tunes that are sensitive and slow as well as pieces that are abstract and fast. The approach I want to take with my records is to give the listener a variety of grooves, concepts, and composers.
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You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.
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I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.
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When fundraising, your network is critical. Leveraging it early and often is the key. Don't make the mistake of waiting until you need money to engage sources of capital.
