E. Joseph Cossman Quotes
Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
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My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.
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A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.
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People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?
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It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
