Betsy Z. Cohen Quotes
The success of a businessperson can be measured by the problems she has successfully solved.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
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I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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The success of a businessperson can be measured by the problems she has successfully solved.
