David Cohen Quotes
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.
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The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.
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When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.
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We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure.
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No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
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Focusing on the right priorities can help you do more faster.
