Alan Cohen Quotes
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
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That day may come. But I’m not seeing it coming soon. We are still strong enough; we’re still popular; I think we are doing the right things.
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I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.
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O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away.
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Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner.
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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
