Adam Cohen Quotes
Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.
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It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.
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If you have fun and keep a good attitude, people want to work with you.
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'Selma' is a story about voice - the voice of a great leader; the voice of a community that triumphs despite turmoil; and the voice of a nation striving to grow into a better society. I hope the film reminds us that all voices are valuable and worthy of being heard.
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The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
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Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
