David X. Cohen Quotes
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.
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As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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I am completely half afraid to think.
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I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
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The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores!
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I'm human, just like anybody else.
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If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.
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I try not to be mean for the sake of being mean, and if I do do a joke or a tweet or something that is at someone's expense - and those are my fine lines; obviously they're there - I want it to be something that's pretty much across the board we all as a society agree this is bad.
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I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.
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But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.
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I feel there are expectations that I have given to myself that were given to me externally as opposed to internall.
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Good things come to those with no expectations.
