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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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.
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Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
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People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.
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When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.
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I used to link up boom boxes, record one take, play it into another boom box then play all that back into the other one until I had six tracks. It was unlistenable!
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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.'
