Jared Cohen Quotes
I often say Policy Planning is very analogous to a venture capital firm. A venture capital firm sees an interesting idea and puts money behind it; in Policy Planning, we look for promising ideas and then put contacts and relationships behind it.
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
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I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry.
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The Kerry plan is simple: Add more money to our national deficit, spend more money here in Washington, raise taxes on job creation.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I often say Policy Planning is very analogous to a venture capital firm. A venture capital firm sees an interesting idea and puts money behind it; in Policy Planning, we look for promising ideas and then put contacts and relationships behind it.
