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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My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
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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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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
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Although the way ahead for immunology is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage of forthcoming excitement in the subject. Yet, as always, the highlights of tomorrow are the unpredictabilities of today.
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Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known.
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It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.
