Bram Cohen Quotes
You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I love comic books and I love anime.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.
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I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.
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You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
