Adam Cohen Quotes
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
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Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
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Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
