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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Don't kill the golden goose.
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I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
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Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
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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.
