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.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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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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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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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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We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.
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I've had a great love for Al Pacino's work since I first saw him on the stage doing 'The Indian Wants the Bronx' in the early '70s. His work is remarkable. He's the real thing.
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When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things. But certainly influences early on that I felt from my mother. I wouldn't say she was "political" per se; she was sensitive to other people.
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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.
