David Cohen Quotes
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.
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If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up, and we're going to start over, and that's always a good thing to do.
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Pavarotti's is the best male voice, and Joan Sutherland had a big voice but also acquired great coloratura notes.
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I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.
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Quality and a great product matters, in startups, and in accelerators.
