Joshua Cohen (Joshua Aaron Cohen) Quotes
You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.
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I don't need adult supervision.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.
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The familiar world of substantial objects and enduring persons is, according to the dhamma theory, a conceptual construct fashioned by the mind out of the raw data provided by the dhammas. The entities of our everyday frame of reference possess merely a consensual reality derivative upon the foundational stratum of the dhammas.
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You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
