George M. Cohan Quotes
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
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Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.
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I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.
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Anything you can imagine, you can create.
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This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.
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You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.
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The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for ever which possesses primary force and by nature suffers nothing): neither do they consist of bodies; for even in bodies the powers are incorporeal. Neither are they contained by space; for that is a property of bodies. Neither are they separate from the first cause nor from one another, just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul.
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Nature, red in tooth and claw.
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The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
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I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
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There is no problem for which the instruction to love more is not the solution.
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The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.
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Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
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A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
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The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.
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Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.
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I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.
