Adam Cohen Quotes
Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Figure out who you are.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
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I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!
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It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.
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The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.
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The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.
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Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
