Adam Cohen Quotes
For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.
Quotes to Explore
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.
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Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.
