E. Joseph Cossman Quotes
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
