David Cohen Quotes
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
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I'm a normal guy.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!
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I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.
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When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
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I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.
