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.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Experience
  • Health

• 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.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• 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.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Science
  • End
  • Theory

• 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.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Human
  • Fate
  • Circumstances

• 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.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Respect
  • View

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Live
  • Song
  • Name

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Time
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Me
  • Laugh
  • Jokes

• One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I don't need adult supervision.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Need
  • Adult
  • Supervision

• The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Neighbors
  • Equally
  • Injunction

• My music has always been my solo project.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Music
  • Project
  • Solo

• The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.

  

  Christian McBride
  • New York
  • Played
  • Bands

• It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Society

• Given the depth and complexity of the bond market, as well as its numerous inefficiencies and opportunities, bond funds deserve a lot more attention from individual investors.

  

  Eric Jacobson
  • Attention
  • Opportunities
  • Market

• I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Happy
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Joshua Cohen
  • Write
  • Rules
  • Novel