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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Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.
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I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.
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You can't have rainbows without rain.
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My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.
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I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.