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.
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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.
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There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
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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.
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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.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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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.
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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.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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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.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
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Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
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People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
