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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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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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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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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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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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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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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.
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Though I'm getting a lot of acting offers, I'd like to enter only when I'm ready. My first love will always be music.
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People see a big dude and they hear that high pitched voice or "Eglasias with an 'I'" and love it because they can relate and go "I know that person!".
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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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.
