Adam Cohen Quotes
A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
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I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.
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I think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'
