Jeff Cohen Quotes
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
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We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.
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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
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I let the dunks speak for themselves.
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There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
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I think I've learned how to be a better boss. I'm the one running the show now, and in the past, I've always kind of been looking at other people to make the decisions. I feel more confident to run not just my show, but behind the scenes, too.
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I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.
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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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I don't like people who don't have opinions.
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When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.
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As a woman, it's nice to hear people at the stage door say, 'I didn't even know! She's a woman, and that's the most amazing thing'.
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You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
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World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. (p.66)
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For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.
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If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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We have a lot to learn from bonobos, because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life.
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In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.
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The positions are probably at this point so enormous. Most people are up to their limit.
