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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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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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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Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.
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I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.
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I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.
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There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.
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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.
