Yael Cohen Quotes
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
Olympia Dukakis -
If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
Pat Paulsen -
I want to play interesting women.
Rachel Weisz -
In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
Tammy Duckworth -
I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
Natalie Dormer
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
Dan Pink -
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. Henry -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer -
I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
Adam Lambert -
And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
Karl Pilkington -
I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
Tammy Duckworth
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
Cameron Winklevoss -
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
Octavia E. Butler -
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
Manuel Puig -
It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
Vince Vaughn -
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D. H. Lawrence -
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
Walter Isaacson
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One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.
Emily Oster -
Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.
Brian Tracy -
I really prize and love great painting.
John Lithgow -
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
Chris Patten -
I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.
Conrad Veidt -
How do you support someone with cancer? How do you ask for the help you need?
Yael Cohen