Bram Cohen Quotes

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Bram Cohen

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• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• 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.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• 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.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Work
  • Great
  • Light

• You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Good
  • Money
  • Never

• Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Space

• I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Government
  • Tired
  • Media

• 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.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • You
  • Rules

• You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Inspiration
  • Influences

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • House
  • Society
  • Summer

• Composition has almost always been solitary.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Always
  • Almost
  • Composition

• He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Live
  • Story
  • Wishes

• 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.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• 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.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Fear
  • Gay

• Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Down
  • Stand

• 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.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Blue

• '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.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Music
  • Real
  • Power

• I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Trying
  • Job

• Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper. Those kinds of movies. So that was really important that we hit that tone and those have a lot of cameos in them and so Jason and I started asking people and everyone we asked just wants to do it.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • People
  • Important
  • Kind

• So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Men
  • Women

• Tips like that. Wearing necklaces, knowing how to layer, wearing a statement piece. Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic. I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.

  

  Molly Sims
  • Knowing
  • Rings
  • Layers

• I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".

  

  Errol Morris
  • Advertising
  • Elections

• Give and ye shall receive.

  

  Bram Cohen