Adam Cohen Quotes
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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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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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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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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Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.
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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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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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One of the great things that playwright A.R. Gurney does in 'Sylvia' is he gives language to the emotional gestures and energy that our dogs give to us when they're communicating.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
