Benjamin Cohen Quotes

At the end of the day I'm pleased with the site I created.

Benjamin Cohen

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• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Way
  • Listen
  • Radio

• Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Win
  • Shopping
  • Election

• I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Think
  • Boy
  • Back

• Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Same
  • Equal
  • Soil

• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Drink

• Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Political
  • Change

• Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!

  

  Orla Brady
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Want
  • Paris
  • Granddaughter

• I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Good
  • Food
  • Cooking

• When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • New York
  • London
  • Warm

• I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Time
  • Free
  • Actors

• I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Important
  • Family
  • Movie

• They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Different
  • Talent
  • Texas

• I do like clarity and exact thinking and I believe that very important to mankind because when you allow yourself to think inexactly your prejudices, your bias, your self interest comes in in ways you don't notice and you do bad things without knowing that you are doing them: self deception is very easy. So that I do think clear thinking immensely important.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Sweet

• I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Book
  • Grind

• I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.

  

  Chandra Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Money
  • Small
  • Photography

• It's much, much harder working on a show than it is working on a movie. It really is. Even if you're in production, that production lasts for a set period of time. A TV show goes on for months and months and months.

  

  Zak Penn
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Period

• I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Matter
  • Source

• I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

  

  Fred Ward
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• My parents didn't want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work. I saw how we had to, during bad times, stretch the dollar. And during good times, we couldn't spend it, because you never knew when the bad times were going to happen again. It gave me a great respect for how hard it is to make money.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Money
  • Trouble
  • Parent

• At the end of the day I'm pleased with the site I created.

  

  Benjamin Cohen