Adam Cohen Quotes

Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

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• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Bible
  • Sick
  • Talking

• I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Universe
  • Decision

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Success
  • You
  • Learned

• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Done
  • Fear
  • Spirit

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Worry
  • Things

• You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Running
  • Say

• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • True
  • Control
  • Military

• A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Writer

• Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Health

• People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Name

• Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

  

  Emile Zola
  • Good
  • Death
  • Fool

• Young women are still looking for a prince on a white charger to come over the hill or for Mr. Rochester to appear. We all pretend we're right-on feminists, but underneath that, there's still the bedrock of romance.

  

  Gemma Jones
  • Women
  • Prince

• The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.

  

  Alan Alda
  • History
  • Movie
  • Question

• I'm a grazer by nature - fruit, nuts - but I try to discipline myself and sit down for regular meals when the girls are around, as I want to instil good habits in them.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Discipline

• You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Sing
  • Build

• Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Poverty
  • Security
  • Living