Brad Cohen Quotes
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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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 more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
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The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.
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I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.
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One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
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I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
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Is anything worth it?
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.
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My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.
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A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure.
