David Cohen Quotes
We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.
Quotes to Explore
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
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‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
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My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
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You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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There is a latent talent in everyone. I am nothing extraordinary just because I happen to be an actor. Everybody is extraordinary in his own way. One must identify one's own talent early on - one is not great merely when he gets recognized by others - and one doesn't become a nobody just because his talent is not widely known.
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We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.
