Matt Cohen Quotes
I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.
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I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.
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I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.
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Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful.
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I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'
