Benjamin Cohen Quotes
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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I've always been very fond of animals.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
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Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
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Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel.
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The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.
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My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.
