Carl Cohen Quotes

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.

Carl Cohen

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• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Gold

• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peaceful
  • Bullets
  • Ballots

• I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Believe
  • Women

• Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Democracy
  • Enthusiasm

• I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Amazing

• All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

  

  Sade Adu
  • Live
  • Me
  • Thanks

• We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Truth
  • Stop
  • Politics

• At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Cold
  • Grateful
  • Prison

• Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Family
  • Art
  • Myself

• Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Up
  • Small
  • Stand

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Spiritual

• I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Music
  • Me
  • Attitude

• I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Would

• And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Think
  • Singing
  • Opera

• Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Truth
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive...and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.

  

  Clifton Taulbert
  • Lives
  • Communities
  • Volunteerism

• I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Home
  • Hero

• I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Find
  • Visit
  • Map

• Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.

  

  Carl Cohen
  • Government
  • Lives
  • Led