Morris Raphael Cohen Quotes
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
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What inspires me may not inspire someone else.
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When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
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If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.
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Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.
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Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
