Etan Cohen Quotes

I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.

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• There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Man
  • Humor

• I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Happy
  • Take
  • Consequences

• My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Passionate

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Together
  • Water

• There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Win
  • Determination

• In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Old
  • Answer
  • Affirmative

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• I am the hero of Africa.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Hero
  • Africa

• Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Healing
  • Moving On

• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Follow

• My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Want
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I think the first thing I consider is whether I like the script. Once that is done, the next thing I look for is my part in the movie. Many a times you come across good offers, but the part they are offering might not be challenging. So, I don't take up that film.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Great
  • Old
  • Economists

• I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • World
  • Great
  • Love

• A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

  

  Tacitus
  • Crime
  • Blessing
  • Initiative

• If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Team

• In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opinion.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Political
  • Opinion
  • Spread

• People saw her pretty elf face and red-gold curls and immediately concluded that she was on the side of angels and paladins. In Sharlarra’s opinion, people that shallow and stupid deserved to be robbed.

  

  Elaine Cunningham
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

  

  Logic
  • Wise
  • Logic

• I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don't have anything to prove to him.

  

  Chuck Liddell

• I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.

  

  Etan Cohen
  • Job
  • Opinion
  • Director