David L. Cohen Quotes
If you look at the families who live below the poverty line, only 47% of them have internet access at home. And of that low income population, they are disproportionately urban and people of color, which makes it a social justice issue.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
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I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
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The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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We have a saying where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness.
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I've worked with Lil Wayne and Wiz, but I'd like to work with Snoop next. I love 'Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss' and 'Doggystyle' and pretty much anything he puts out. And Ice Cube - like, all the legends.
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Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.
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Hills are speedwork in disguise.
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Each Disney princess is unique in their own way, but Moana is especially close to my heart because she's Polynesian.
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Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.
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If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?
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What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
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I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.
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Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.
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If you look at the families who live below the poverty line, only 47% of them have internet access at home. And of that low income population, they are disproportionately urban and people of color, which makes it a social justice issue.
