William S. Cohen Quotes
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
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I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the greatest historians of both African and African-American history, and hired them as consultants. I had them submit what they thought were the indispensable stories, the ones they felt this series absolutely had to include.
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Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.
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If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.
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If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.
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Government is the enemy until you need a friend.
