Alan Cohen Quotes
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
Quotes to Explore
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.
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I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
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I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
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For peace to come, it is time for them - and all of us - to live up to our responsibilities.
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You're not going to live your life unscathed.
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To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
