George M. Cohan Quotes

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George M. Cohan

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• I am a passionate civil libertarian.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Passionate
  • Libertarian
  • Civil

• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
  • True
  • Pretty

• Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • California
  • Places
  • Software

• I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Big

• I've been obsessed with Opening Ceremony since I moved to New York. I've spent whole paychecks there.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • New
  • New York
  • Opening

• I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choice

• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Keep

• I've never personally been anorexic.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Never
  • Been
  • Personally

• When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Red
  • Chinese
  • Judging

• Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Three
  • Pillars

• I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Nervous
  • Recluse

• I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Google

• Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Women
  • Sex

• Even men who share their personal experiences find that, instead of empathy, they get the response Dear Abby gave this man: 'Women have it worse.' This belief is so strong that over the past quarter century, women’s old fantasy of marrying a man-as-protector has been tainted by women’s new nightmare of husband-as-batterer.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Past

• All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Lies

• Unless you can muse in a crowd all dayOn the absent face that fixed you;Unless you can love, as the angels may,With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,Through behoving and unbehoving;Unless you can die when the dream is past -Oh, never call it loving!

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • May
  • Dream
  • Past

• I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Way
  • Inspired
  • Rap

• The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Civilization
  • Founder
  • First Human

• Gonna pull in the shutters on this heart of mineRoll up the carpets and pull in the blindsAnd retreat to the chambers that I left behindIn hopes there still may be love left to findStill may be love left to find.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Up
  • Heart
  • May

• It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Sport
  • Phenomenon
  • Historian

• Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

  

  George M. Cohan