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 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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My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
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I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.
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...conditioning usually reinforces instinct rather than overrides it.
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Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.
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In general, if a couple cannot expand their original rules and boundaries to accommodate personal growth, the relationship disintegrates.
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There's not a lot of positive role models of women in newspapers and magazines. I think it puts pressure on girls. They think that the image put out, it's the way you have to look.
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I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.
