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 never said I was a genius.
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There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
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There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.
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In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
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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.
