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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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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An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.
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For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.
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It's only a certain amount of days your friend's mom is gonna let you stay at they crib without feeling some type of way. So I'd stay two or three days, then they mom would be like, 'What's up with him? He got to leave unless he gonna pay for something.'
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One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
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Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
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The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.
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I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.
