Nick Cohen Quotes
London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.
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Doing 'Law & Order' for so long, my fan base was, like, men and women my age, and then doing 'Daredevil', my whole audience has changed. It's cool.
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
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You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.
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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.
