Matt Cohen Quotes
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
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At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.
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When Title IX was passed I was quite naive. I thought all the problems of sex discrimination in education would be solved in one or two years at most. When two years passed, I increased my estimate to five years, then later to ten, then to fifty, and now I realize it will take many generations to solve all the problems.
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I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.
