Jared Cohen Quotes
When people think of digital diplomacy, they think of government tweeting. It is not what it is. That is public diplomacy.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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“But the daily tasks and prayers of men, the ancient city tired from having lived too long, the ravaged marble and worn out bells, all those things oppressed by the weight of memories, all those perishable things were rendered humble in comparison with the tremendous blazing Alps that tore at the sky with their thousand unyielding spikes, a vast, solitary city that was waiting, perhaps, for a new race of Titans.”
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most oppressed, black people and Jews. Not that they're the only funny people, but culturally, it comes from the pain, you know?
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You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.
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When people think of digital diplomacy, they think of government tweeting. It is not what it is. That is public diplomacy.
