Emory Cohen Quotes

When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable.

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• You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Story

• In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Desire
  • Church
  • Better

• Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Work
  • Health

• There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Country
  • Family

• Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Education
  • Health
  • Growth

• If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Internet
  • Doors

• There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Process
  • Watch

• All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Question
  • Clean
  • Applying

• It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Important

• The fact that President Obama gave up his public holiday (today is the President’s Day) and held the US-Asean Leaders Summit has shown Washington’s recognition towards the importance of Asean

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • Today
  • Holiday

• A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Game

• Tarzan of the Apes knew that they had found the body of his victim, but that interested him far less than the fact that no one remained in the village to prevent his taking a supply of the arrows which lay below him.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Stiffy was one of those girls who enjoy in equal quantities the gall of an army mule and the calm insouciance of a fish on a slab of ice.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Army
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• The reproduction of labour power thus reveals as its sine qua non not only the reproduction of its ‘skills’ but also the reproduction of its subjection to the ruling ideology. ... It is in the forms and under the forms of ideological subjection that provision is made for the reproduction of the skills of labour power.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Power

• Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Mind

• I'm glad to know that I can host the 'Today' show for 16 years and not be a trending topic. And all the sudden I'm on 'Royal Pains,' and I'm a trending topic. There's something a little strange about that.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Today

• While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Failure

• My job is not to predict everything that might happen in the future, but to address what we can do today.

  

  Wolfgang Schauble
  • Today
  • Happens
  • Might

• One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

  

  David Novak
  • Live
  • Community
  • Church

• Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

  

  Amy Webb
  • Effort
  • Failure
  • Guarantee

• When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable.

  

  Emory Cohen