Adam Cohen Quotes
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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A good leader must be fair.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.
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A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
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I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.
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Even though I am in the sneaker world, I am very diverse.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
