Joshua Cohen (Joshua Aaron Cohen) Quotes

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

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• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Suffering
  • Emotional
  • Poverty

• I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Me
  • Running

• But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Dreams
  • False
  • Tales

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Ambition

• I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Always
  • Decision
  • Evolving

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Life
  • Work
  • Night

• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Love
  • Control
  • For Her

• I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Holidays

• I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Believe
  • American

• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Humanity

• My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Woman

• I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Fear
  • Unknown

• My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Always

• I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Blow

• Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.

  

  Neil Harbisson
  • Kids
  • Inspired

• I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kids

• We all know to eat green vegetables and oily fish, but who does that? I'll have a cake, thanks.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Fish
  • Cake
  • Vegetables

• I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Chance
  • Comics
  • Forgotten Realms

• I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Small
  • Single

• We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We have technology that puts all of the information of humankind at our fingertips, but we have the attention span of a three-year-old at a carnival midway on the Fourth of July. We throw around a lot of words like democracy, federal, republic, nationalist, socialist, liberal, and right-wing—but do we really know what they mean?

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Society
  • Technology
  • Democracy

• All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

  

  Joshua Cohen
  • Technology
  • Human
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