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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I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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I don't answer the phone or do my email; I don't do anything until I've got the day's writing done. I have a word count for every day: 500 for fiction, 1,000 for non-fiction, and journalism is 1,500. That's a level I can sustain.
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We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
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Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
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"Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".
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I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.
