Adam Cohen Quotes
Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
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There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
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The march is a way to get in celebration mode.
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There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.
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A sprinter is never satisfied; otherwise, he is not a sprinter.
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At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
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Alternatives to gold and currency and to make a big speculative vehicle - I never considered for one second having anything to do with it. I detested it the minute it had been raised.
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I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.
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From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.
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It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.
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There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
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Actually, I don't like Atheists very much - at least most of them ~ because they are not motivated to move into the community and attempt to correct the injustices which are everywhere apparent against them.
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I want to be remembered as a passionate professional and compassionate human being.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
