William S. Cohen Quotes
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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Time stays, we go.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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I believe everyone has the ability to be hypnotised, and I think, on different days, different people will have varying levels of susceptibility.
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For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.
