Scott Cohen Quotes
New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I was an expert horseman.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
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Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.
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Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'
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Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.
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There are more crime films about the corruption of power because our society has similar problems. It would be great for me as an actor to work on an 'Inside Men' sequel, but I hope it never gets made. Because it would mean the corruption is still there.
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Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'
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New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.
