Bram Cohen Quotes
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.
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Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
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I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
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'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
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Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.
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Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.
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Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
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All girls want to be sexy.
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It's hard to enlist the support of people you don't know, but it's critical to growing your career, finding new customers, and building out your team.
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Give and ye shall receive.
