Chapman Cohen Quotes
We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I'm a huge Nirvana fan.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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When you constantly revisit things, it's hard to know if you're freezing in time or if you're a brilliant adult who's working through it. I think about that in therapy, talking about the same things over and over again.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.
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Ché perder tempo a chi più sa più spiace.
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One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.
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God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
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Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our character. Let's participate in what God is doing in the world.
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We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.
