Morris Raphael Cohen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
-
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
-
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
-
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
-
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
-
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
-
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
-
Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
-
The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
-
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
-
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
-
The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
-
Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
-
Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
-
My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
-
You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
-
Most inventions are based on some prior history.
-
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
-
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
-
I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.
-
Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.
-
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
-
The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.
-
Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.
