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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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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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
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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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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.
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Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.
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Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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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.'
