Rich Cohen Quotes
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
Flume
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
C. V. Raman
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
Sam Smith
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
Vanity
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Nathan Fillion
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
Naveen Jain
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
Uday Kiran
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
Gavin Newsom
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
Iman
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After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
Pat Toomey
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There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
Parker Palmer
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
Eartha Kitt
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
Yayoi Kusama
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius
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You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.
Salma Hayek
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I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
Paloma Faith
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I range the fields with pensive tread, And pace the hollow rooms; And feel companion of the dead I'm living in the tombs.
Abraham Lincoln
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Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.
Karl Marx
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I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.
David S. Goyer
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I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.
Barack Obama
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Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.
Virgil Thomson
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All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.
Larry Wilmore
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
H. L. Mencken
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Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.
Rich Cohen