William D. Cohan Quotes
Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.
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Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
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Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
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When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me.
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When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.
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Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?
