Ben Cohen Quotes

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• I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Good
  • Light
  • Negative

• I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • House

• It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Writing
  • Books
  • Ever

• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Want
  • Listening

• Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

  

  Enrico Fermi
  • Confused

• Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Black

• Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Work
  • Business
  • Career

• So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • World
  • Night
  • Earth

• Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

  

  Billy Rose
  • Believe
  • Sea
  • Moon

• He said he wasn't ready to come out. But then he sat down for a while, came back, and made a shot like that. We wanted him to rest his legs. Your legs can suffer when you take as many shots as he does.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Rest
  • Suffer
  • Legs

• Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Should
  • Born
  • Boat

• The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Suicide
  • Destroyers

• A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Pieces

• In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Reality
  • Speak
  • Statement

• I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.

  

  Jack Roy
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• There are a lot of Arabs that are not Muslims. They are Christians; they are Jews. Muslim Arabs, especially in my family, are just so ecstatic that I get to play Jesus. They're so proud.

  

  Haaz Sleiman
  • Jesus
  • Christians
  • Jews

• All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Way

• We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's.

  

  Ben Cohen
  • Decided
  • Bottom Line
  • Redefine