Chapman Cohen Quotes
It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.
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If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
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With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love.
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A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
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In each case it was just a few dozen, but it's enough that we do want to take a closer look at it.
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Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.
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I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.
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Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
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Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.
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So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
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Be a voice not an echo.
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When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
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There's no right way or wrong way to work. There's only your way.
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A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.
