Adam Cohen Quotes
Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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I don't really go out at all.
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I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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I can paint in jail.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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The fact that I had attained stardom never affected me too much.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
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Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
