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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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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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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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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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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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in itself, induce a long-term warming trend, superimposed on all the other complicated effects that make climate fluctuate.
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It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
