Morris Raphael Cohen Quotes
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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There's been times where I sold the place out, and I walked in and the guy's like, 'Uh, ID?' 'No, you can't ID me, man. I just sold this place out.' People are just doing their jobs, but I think if you're working the door at a venue where there's a headliner, you should at least be like, 'OK, this is the dude.'
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Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.
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I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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..I have never managed to grasp what exactly 'pataphysics' consisted of; but in short what I have always seen in it is a desire to disconnect philosophy from the discipline of logic, and to admit incoherence as a legitimate component of it. comment on visiting frequently the Collège de 'Pataphysique'
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This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don’t consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.
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Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
