Andrew Cohen Quotes
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.
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I think we all need to be inside of us for 3 whole days, thinking about how we can love ourselves more, protect ourselves more, live life with more passion and look not outwards for validation but inwards.
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I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.
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Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
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I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
