Jared Cohen Quotes
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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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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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I was one of the first American rock n' rollers in the '50s to go to many foreign countries. It's a wonderful thing to go out and spread joy and love rather than hate.
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Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
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'Young men,' said Cæsar, 'hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.'
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On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.
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Iranian young people are one of the most pro-American populations in the Middle East.
