Emory Cohen Quotes
I was 16 when I linked up with my manager - first person I ever auditioned for - and I've been in this ever since.

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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.
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Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I was 16 when I linked up with my manager - first person I ever auditioned for - and I've been in this ever since.