Emory Cohen Quotes

Everyone's inspired by Brando. When I started acting, my dad showed me 'On the Waterfront,' and I thought, 'That's the coolest guy I've ever seen.'

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• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  

  Ed Markey
  • You
  • Car
  • Wait

• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • You
  • Air
  • Matter

• 'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Game
  • Simply
  • Odyssey

• I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Like
  • Little
  • Gymnast

• The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Man
  • Worst
  • Corruption

• I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Men
  • Trying
  • She

• I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Play
  • Like
  • Story

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Good
  • Man
  • Woman

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Generation
  • Passionate
  • Empowering

• No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Believe
  • High
  • Law

• I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Up
  • Think
  • Now

• I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Happy

• If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

  

  Bobby Scott

• I went a few times, but I felt there was no way that any therapist could understand my particular torment and also felt in some respects they were sicker than I was.

  

  Jerry West

• I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Singing

• One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Creation
  • Agencies
  • Departments

• Everyone's inspired by Brando. When I started acting, my dad showed me 'On the Waterfront,' and I thought, 'That's the coolest guy I've ever seen.'

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Inspired