William S. Cohen Quotes
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
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A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
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Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.
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Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.
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Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.
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Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
